Using critical problem based learning factors in an integrated undergraduate business curriculum: A business course success: Working paper series--05-19

Scherpereel, Christopher M. and Bowers, Mary Y. (2005) Using critical problem based learning factors in an integrated undergraduate business curriculum: A business course success: Working paper series--05-19. Working Paper. NAU W.A. Franke College of Business.

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Abstract

University management education continues to be criticized for not meeting the needs of its most important stakeholders: students, graduates, and the business community. Such criticism stems from evidence that management education is not promoting the learning needed to build essential business knowledge and competencies. It appears management education is failing to listen to its customers and is not providing graduates with experience in developing leadership and teamwork skills, solving problems, and dealing with ambiguity. The silo approach long used in traditional management education prepares graduates to function vertically when businesses now operate horizontally. To better serve management education stakeholders, Northern Arizona University's College of Business Administration developed and offers a course called BizBlock. BizBlock integrates core undergraduate business courses early in the business curriculum and uses problem-based learning (PBL) strategies. Anecdotal evidence suggests that by combining functional integration and PBL educational approaches, management education stakeholder needs can be better met.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Publisher’s Statement:	Copyright, where appropriate, is held by the author.
ID number or DOI:	05-19
Keywords:	Working paper, problem based learning, business education, preparing students for the workplace
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status:	Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit:	The W.A. Franke College of Business
Date Deposited:	18 Oct 2015 00:16
URI:	http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/1558

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