Educating Managers with Tomorrow's Technologies. Research in Management Education and Development Series.

Overview & Synopsis

This volume demonstrates how technology is impacting management education and learning in a variety of educational contexts. Some of the issues and trends in management education addressed include: technotrends; web-based management learning; the changing nature of the web as a context for learning; online simulations; web-format case studies; e-portfolios; emphasizing human interaction; teaching soft management skills online; designing mobile learning for the wireless world; integrating enterprise resource planning (ERP) into business education; technology planning; and avoiding a dystopian future. The chapters are as follows: "Introduction: Emerging Technological Contexts of Management Learning" (Wankel, DeFillippi); "Educating Managers, Managing Education: Trends and Impacts of Tomorrow's Technologies" (Brussee et al.); "Learning and Teaching Management on the Web: What Do We Know?" (Arbaugh, Stelzer); "Online Simulations in Management Education about Information and Its Uses" (Rafaeli et al.); "Innovations in Web-Format Case Teaching: Leveraging Dynamic Information" (Clark); "Electronic Student Portfolios in Management Education" (Chappell, Schermerhorn Jr.); "The Place and Space Model of Distributed Learning: Enriching the Corporate e-Learning Model" (Gallagher); "Interpersonal Communication Training with Tomorrow's Technologies" (Henninger, Weingandt); "Mobile Scenarios: Supporting Collaborative Learning Among Mobile Workers: (Lundin, Nulden); " Global Management Education: The Case of ERP Enabled Business School Programs" (Reisel, Watson); "From Vision to Reality: A Model for Bringing Real-World Technology to the Management Education Classroom" (Hamlin et al.). Chapters contain substantial references. (MO)