Learning and Teaching for Business

This collection of best practice examples of business teaching should inspire and inform those involved in the improvement of teaching in higher education. Assembled by the Learning and Teaching Support Network the examples are drawn from institutions throughout the UK including: The Open University, Sheffield Hallam, City University, St Andrews, Brighton, De Montfort, Liverpool John Moores, Glasgow, Leeds Met and Plymouth. Individual case studies focus on everything from the use of action learning, resource based learning, using technology and peer assessment to the development of a knowledge management system.

Figures, Tables, Contributors, Foreword, Acknowledgements, 1. Success in the new world of learning and teaching, 2. Resource-based learning in the business environment, 3. From leading edge to mainstream: the evolving Brighton Business School intranet, 4. The International Consultancy Assignment, 5. Introducing action learning into a business school, 6. Byzantium for learning accounting in English business schools, 7. Using Monopoly© as an introduction to financial accounting, 8. Peer assessment and enhancing students' learning, 9. Group work and the Web: FINESSE and TAGS, 10. Using learning technology resources in teaching management Accounting, 11. Creating a Web site for studying strategic management, 12. The live consultancy case study, 13. Building and maintaining distributed communities of practice: knowledge management in the OUBS MBA, 14. Assessing student performance, 15. Learning from success, Index