Addressing the Challenge: Report of an Active, Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Teaching Undergraduate Students
Cynthia L. Corritore, Juli-Ann Gasper
In recent years, advances and innovations in the workplace have created many challenges for higher education. As a result, faculty are trying to identify new ways to teach students more effectively for this fast-paced environment. This paper addresses the issue by describing an exciting new instructional innovation that proxies what students will face in their careers with respect to teamwork, digital collaboration, and information technology interaction. The innovation, named PROXY, provides a realistic, challenging, dynamic learning environment applicable in almost any curriculum. PROXY addresses the need for students to learn course content and apply that content in a realistic cross-disciplinary context. A key characteristic of PROXY is that it requires little, if any, curricular change or additional resources. A detailed description of an implementation of PROXY in a business MIS and a Finance course is provided.
Keywords:pedagogy, business education, Millennial students, experiential learning, interdisciplinary, distributed learning, collaborative learning, role playing
Cynthia L. Corritore (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Information Systems & Technology at Creighton University College of Business Administration. Dr. Corritore teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the use of technology in business, web technologies, and user interaction and interface design. She has published numerous papers on the topics of online trust, teaching with technology, and empirical programming.
Juli-Ann Gasper (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Finance at Creighton University. She is the recipient of the First Instructional Technology Award at Creighton, 2001. She also is a Charter Fellow and Charter Senior Fellow, Academic Development and Technology Center, Creighton University, 1995 and 2003.
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