In
my teaching, I make heavy use of technology and personal experience
to illustrate effective use of computers in organizational settings.
Over the past years, I have complemented this perspective by adding
a component of multi-cultural collaborative learning using videoconferencing
and other technologies to bring in guests and enable cross-institutional
interaction to create a rich learning environment for my students.
I have further complemented this approach by encouraging remote
interaction by students in various locations both synchronously
and asynchronously. These multi-cultural virtual team projects provide
a special learning opportunity for both students and instructors.
I have also created an “e-organization” virtual business environment
to support cross-disciplinary interaction for undergraduate students.
The objective is to enable undergraduate students to obtain a better
mental model of how organizations work and better assimilate and
integrate contributions from specific courses. I am currently exploring
use of wireless mobile devices (e.g., PDAs and “smart-phones”) to
create extended learning environments as well as serving as chairman
of a steering committee aimed at integrating university educational
and administrative resources.
