"IT via ERP": A Novel Approach to Teaching IT Fundamentals to Business Administration students by Means of an Open Source ERP System
- First year Business Administration students tend to regard themselves as “non-computer scientists” and often have a lack of motivation about taking IT courses in general, either because they perceive them as too technical, too difficult or somewhat irrelevant. In an attempt to counteract this perception and increase the levels of engagement and willing attendance to class, we decided to flip theFirst year Business Administration students tend to regard themselves as “non-computer scientists” and often have a lack of motivation about taking IT courses in general, either because they perceive them as too technical, too difficult or somewhat irrelevant. In an attempt to counteract this perception and increase the levels of engagement and willing attendance to class, we decided to flip the traditional lecture model and develop a new teaching and learning approach for the IT Fundamentals course using an open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as the platform from which to draw the various underlying IT concepts and through which the relevant competences can be acquired.
This paper describes the implementation process of this new contextualized learning framework “IT via ERP” and the changes in the didactical methods to support it.…
Author: | Mariela Castro KohlerORCiD, Tobias HagenORCiDGND |
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Creating Corporation: | Technische Universität Illmenau |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Pagenumber: | 7 |
Language: | English |
Tag: | ERP; Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Parent Title (German): | Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2016 : Research-in-Progress- und Poster-Beiträge |
First Page: | 51 |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Institutes: | Bibliografie |
Release Date: | 2017/08/28 |
Licence (German): | ![]() |
Note: | Konferenz: Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2016, Technische Universität Ilmenau 09.-11. März 2016 |
URL: | http://www.mkwi2016.de/download/MKWI2016_Research-in-Progress-Poster-Band.pdf |