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Enhancing reflective practices within business management education: what kinds of e-learning scenarios can be designed?

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Michael von Kutzschenbach,

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IC4E '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning

Pages 108 - 113

https://doi.org/10.1145/3306500.3306580

Published: 10 January 2019 Publication History

IC4E '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning

Enhancing reflective practices within business management education: what kinds of e-learning scenarios can be designed?

Pages 108 - 113

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A majority of managers does not know what it means and how to leverage the development of new technologies and disruptive innovations for their business. Furthermore, doing business is getting increasingly complex due to globalization and specialization. Thus, it looks like everyone is hyperactively looking for an external solution to their managerial challenges while, at the same time, managers seem to have lost their intuition for future direction and are unable to step back and think about intended and unintended consequences of the digital revolution. As a University of Applied Sciences, and as a School of Business, we provide business management education for future leaders. We are committed to teach to our students to appreciate the discomfort with the hard work of thinking and reflecting, and therefore to learn from the insights about innovation, strategy and personal development in order to finally achieve improved leadership competences. In this paper, we will present our lessons learnt from asking students of a leadership class at an applied university to write a reflective journal for deep learning purpose.

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Barthakur AJoksimovic SKovanovic VMello RTaylor MRichey MPardo A(2022)Understanding Depth of Reflective Writing in Workplace Learning Assessments Using Machine Learning ClassificationIEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies10.1109/TLT.2022.316254615:5(567-578)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TLT.2022.3162546

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Barthakur AJoksimovic SKovanovic VMello RTaylor MRichey MPardo A(2022)Understanding Depth of Reflective Writing in Workplace Learning Assessments Using Machine Learning ClassificationIEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies10.1109/TLT.2022.316254615:5(567-578)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TLT.2022.3162546

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