Dear Sarah and other academics,
I administer a semester-length, internet-based, multi-campus, computer-assisted, international-business game every semester that your students could join-free, of course. To include your students, I need to know three things: course number and name, number of sections, and number of students in each section.
Students can be engaged in the game in three ways, which allows you can use the game in more than one course in the same semester.
1. Situational mode: Suitable for an introductory course in management, this is where the game is a setting for students to engage in management and leadership activities. Students take turns playing team leader for a holding company in which team members are invested. Team members send written reports to the team leader of the week, who presents a company report to the class at the end of the fiscal week. The class votes on the best presentation.
2. Practice mode: Suitable for an intermediate international-business course, this is where students are allowed to play the game by themselves with few instructions, like driving bumper cars, for bonus points depending on how well they perform. Most perform poorly, but that's the point. Bumper cars get bumped a lot.
3. Intervention mode: Suitable for a capstone strategic-management course, this is where students enter the game as minimally involved observers until well into the semester. They see the game's economy develop and the mistakes made, but they cannot intervene-until it's time. When it's their time, they are enabled to intervene. They should do better than the others, some do and some don't.
For the demo version of the game, GEO, go to my website (below). You also will see there a demo version of GroupMaker that's available to supplement GEO. GroupMaker is helpful when GEO is played in situational mode and intervention mode. It manages reports, papers, and presentations.
Best,
Precha
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Precha Thavikulwat, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Associate Editor, Simulation & Gaming
Department of Management
Towson University
Towson, MD 21252-0001
U.S.A.
t. 410-704-3230
f. 410-704-3236
pthavikulwat@towson.edu
Skype/Line: pthavikulwat
http://wp.towson.edu/precha
From: International Management Discussion List [mailto:IMD-L@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG] On Behalf Of Sarah Easter
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 12:14 PM
To: IMD-L@AOMLISTS.AOM.ORG
Subject: Recommendations for undergraduate International Business Course
Dear All,
Apologies for cross-posting.
I am working to prepare an International Business course for undergraduates this fall and I am actively looking for suggestions to make it experiential and applied in nature. I would really appreciate any recommendations on syllabi, books/readings, projects, cases, simulations, videos, and any other resources that would be of help.
I am happy to distribute the recommendations to all interested parties.
Thank you!
Sarah Easter, MBA, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management
College of Business Administration
Abilene Christian University