This enlightening book explores the links between high-impact educational practices (HIPs) and experiential learning (EL) pedagogy, detailing how educators have adopted these practices to create a more experiential, participatory, and active learning environment.
The first of two companion volumes, Practical Applications of Experiential and Community-Engaged Learning Methods in Business focuses on EL and community-engaged learning (CEL) applications in business education. Chapter authors shed light on the importance of technology in facilitating meaningful student engagement. They delve into the theoretical grounding of EL and CEL, discussing how these approaches can be implemented efficiently and successfully at the classroom or institutional level.
Academics and researchers working with teaching methods and their development will benefit from this volume. It is additionally useful for students of business and management, education and teaching methods.
This enlightening book explores the links between high-impact educational practices (HIPs) and experiential learning (EL) pedagogy, detailing how educators have adopted these practices to create a more experiential, participatory, and active learning environment.
Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
PART I THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
1 What is Student-Centric Experiential Learning Theory? 2
2 What is Community Engaged Learning: theoretical and
pedagogical background 16
3 Implementation of a Community-Engaged Learning program:
an institutional perspective 32
4 Experiential Learning from theory to practice: the role of
technology in experiential education 46
PART II PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF EXPERIENTIAL
AND COMMUNITY-ENGAGED LEARNING IN
BUSINESS EDUCATION
5 Experiential Learning at its best: problem-based learning and
gamification in supply chain management 69
6 Developing MBA students management consulting skills
through experiential learning 87
7 Evaluating the impact of research-focused experiential
learning opportunities within a UK-based undergraduate
management program 107
8 Experiential learning in management: fundamentals of
systems theory and system analysis 121
9 Organizational behavior course with reflective thinking and
Student-Centric Experiential Learning approach 140
10 The efficacy and students perception of Community-Engaged
Learning (CEL): evidence from the cost accounting course 159
11 Experiential learning in international finance: a live case
study of the Turkish currency crisis 178
12 Community Engaged Learning: enhancing marketing
education through experiential approaches with real clients 186
13 Designing an international marketing course: the
multicultural classroom as an asset in community-engaged
learning 199
14 Using a marketing simulation with peer tutoring in a capstone
marketing management course 215
Edited by Mehtap Aldogan Eklund, Associate Professor, Department of Accountancy and Kenneth W. Graham, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, USA
