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RMIT University - Online via Curio
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Griffith University Griffith Business School
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Charles Sturt University
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Publisher: Emerald
Date: 18-08-2022
DOI: 10.1108/JIEB-10-2020-0083
Abstract: This study aims to examine the effectiveness of bilingual learning strategies designed to support Chinese undergraduate business students facing significant learning challenges in an Australian university capstone curriculum delivered at their Chinese university. These challenges include the students’ difficulty understanding discipline-specific English terminology, using this terminology to discuss disciplinary concepts with their instructors and stress caused by an abnormally high study load. In response to these challenges, the project team implemented a suite of bilingual strategies to reduce cognitive load and enhance learning, which included Chinese-English glossaries to build disciplinary-specific vocabularies a bilingual teaching assistant to enable students to communicate in their language of choice the use of WeChat to connect students to staff and to provide translanguaging opportunities and bilateral managerial and academic support for strengthening the institutional cross-cultural relationship through staff exchange and language learning programs. A series of surveys were administered to measure the impact of these strategies on students’ learning, and WeChat logs were analysed to determine students’ linguistic preferences during discussions with staff and students. The results of this project show strong support for each bilingual strategy, high academic performance amongst the student cohort, the positive contribution to learning and connection provided by social media technology, students’ language of choice preferences and chosen translanguaging styles and the important role of teaching staff in supporting international students’ intercultural learning and adaptation to a foreign university learning system. This original evidence-based study helps to address the gap in bilingual education in Australian higher education demonstrating a successful strategy for dealing with language and discipline-specific challenges confronting EAL students.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 05-12-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-05-2015
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 25-09-2020
DOI: 10.1108/IJTC-04-2019-0056
Abstract: Scholarly research into community members’ views on the positive and negative impacts of Airbnb on the local community is sparse, especially in regional Australia. The purpose of this paper is to explore the views of key informants in the Byron Shire of Australia about the impacts of Airbnb on the local community, as well as possible solutions to the problems. A qualitative approach of in-depth interviewing using a semi-structured interview guide was used to capture the views regarding the impacts of Airbnb held by 22 key informants in the Byron Shire community. The interview data were analysed using thematic analysis. The 22 interviewees identified five main positive impacts of Airbnb on the Byron Shire community and eight main negative impacts of Airbnb. All participants said they wanted more regulation of Airbnb properties to help address the negative impacts of Airbnb in the community. Eight specific recommendations were offered by the interviewees. The negative impacts of Airbnb felt by local community are more extensive and deleterious than have been accounted for in the literature. Research into community stakeholder perspectives is important, in order to gain a fuller view of the costs and benefits of sharing economy, especially with regard to short-term letting or holiday letting in tourism centres, as well as potential for more sustainable solutions to the issues. The findings are being used to inform policy makers’ decisions in managing Airbnb in the Shire. The involvement of key informant community members in this study highlights that there is much common ground between different stakeholders. This type of research may help to provide a sense of enfranchisement and empowerment. This is important in fostering a more balanced public debate, as well as more sustainable approaches to managing the issues. This paper is the first to explore the views of a range of different key informants in the regional tourist area of Byron Shire in Australia with regard to the positive and negative impacts of Airbnb on the local community, as well as possible solutions to the issues raised by Airbnb.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.AUSMJ.2013.08.005
Abstract: Contemporary learning-centred (LC) teaching and learning approaches are vital to help learners develop lifelong skills for employability in the digital age. This paper relates the knowledge and experiences gained from a study to enhance LC in a first-year core marketing curriculum undertaken in a blended learning environment by large, erse groups of business students in an Australian tertiary educational institution. The study involved (1) measuring the degree of presence of LC in the 2011 curriculum, (2) identifying and exploring ways to enhance LC in the 2011 curriculum and (3) implementing selected new LC approaches to the 2012 curriculum and recording the outcomes of the new approach. A key LC technique introduced in line with the above process included an online collaborative writing using group blogs and wikis in a major, multi-part marketing plan assessment item. The findings of the research provide guidelines for enhancement of learning-centredness to reflective practice-oriented marketing/management educators committed to continuous improvement of their LC oriented curriculum for fostering students’ lifelong learning.
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-11-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2012
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 16-03-2020
DOI: 10.1108/IJCTHR-07-2019-0134
Abstract: This paper aims to purposely place community and its stakeholders at the forefront of an investigation of positive and negative social, economic and environmental impacts of the sharing economy in the specific context of Airbnb by drawing upon the triple bottom line (TBL) framework of sustainability. A qualitative enquiry through a “scoping approach” with the search of relevant electronic databases identified a range of conceptual and empirical studies in the period from 2008 to 2018 informing a profile focussed on the triple bottom line impacts. The criteria limited search yielded 23 focal articles, which investigated or discussed Airbnb impacts on local communities. Analysis of these articles informed a three-pillar tabulation of positive and negative impacts, which are presented against four key stakeholder groupings. The study is exploratory, and further research, especially confirmatory research, is recommended. The study’s value extends to praxis. Guided by findings, real-time planning and policy-making are already underway within the authors’ community. Additionally, an extension project, as requested by the community, is now investigating direct traditional accommodation provider impacts. Understanding of the social issues concerning Airbnb and indeed, the wider sharing economy, is broadened through identified need for further social impact research. To the best of authors’ knowledge, this is one of the first studies to apply a “scoping approach” to holistically illuminate the positive and negative impacts of Airbnb at the micro-level in each of the three domains of sustainability. The research methodology is shown to be effective, with positive community impact, and will easily adapt to other destinations grappling with policy decisions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2014
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2015.7
Abstract: This article explores conceptualisations of sustainability and perceptions of its importance in curriculum held by business subject and program leaders. Results are reported from an empirical study of the first-year Bachelor of Business program at an Australian university. Research data was collected in 16 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with subject and program leaders over two teaching periods in 2011. Interview transcripts were analysed through the identification of key themes. The results reveal that teaching academics believe sustainability is something more dynamic and complex than they are able to feature in their subjects, reflecting the difficulty in appropriately conceptualising sustainability, as well as differences between the academics’ beliefs, intentions and actions. Few studies explore the conceptualisations of sustainability held by subject and program leaders. If business schools are to produce sustainability-savvy graduates, the teaching academics need to have a clear and, ideally, shared view of sustainability.
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2012
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2015
Publisher: Canadian Center of Science and Education
Date: 30-04-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-08-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.AUSMJ.2018.05.005
Abstract: In business, creativity and innovation can be the difference between success and failure, especially in a world challenged by sustainability issues. Yet creativity and sustainability are rarely discussed with students and seldom appear as part of the formal material in tertiary marketing studies, certainly at the introductory level. This article reports on a curriculum initiative which sought to address this gap in the context of a first-year undergraduate Marketing Principles, multi-cohort course. To help warrant the rigour of the initiative, drawing on the literature, a six-step scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) theoretical framework was used to describe the initiative, and to determine its effectiveness. The investigation was informed by a multi-method study comprising descriptive analysis of 323 students’ performance scores, content analysis of 59 student groups’ preliminary marketing plans, descriptive analysis of 113 students’ attitudes (survey), and content analysis of 35 students’ post-assessment reflections. The results indicate that sustainability-oriented creativity can be successfully taught and assessed in large, first-year marketing cohorts, provided the curriculum is scaffolded and the teaching team is ‘on-board’. Further, viewing teaching and learning initiatives through the SOTL lens is a valuable way for scholarly academics to enhance their intellectual contributions to their schools, to improve student learning experience and outcomes and to help the business school faculty, as well as the marketing discipline.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-11-2021
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 13-02-2017
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate examiner reactions to doctorate of business administration (DBA) theses at an Australian university applying Perry’s structured approach to thesis presentation, which had its origin in the marketing discipline, but is now widely applied to other business disciplines. This paper examines 49 DBA examiner reports relating to 19 DBA theses using the structured Perry approach, with emphasis paid to comments relating to thesis structure and presentation. Only those theses that acknowledged Perry or demonstrated Perry-like characteristics were interrogated. The use of Perry’s structured approach can lead to DBA theses that place excessive emphasis on description rather than practical outcomes, as should occur with a professional doctorate, and also fosters excessive repetition and scaffolding that unduly interferes with the candidate’s “story telling”. Many examiners found theses using Perry’s structured approach problematic, particularly with respect to a lack of integration with the literature and reflection on the findings in relation to previous studies. The use of Perry’s structured approach potentially acts as a further barrier to DBA theses, and other professional doctorates by extension, sufficiently differentiating themselves from PhDs. This has implications for the examination of such theses, which are sometimes viewed as lower-quality PhDs instead of professional doctorates. Applying a traditional PhD thesis structure, such as the model advocated by Perry with its use of five chapters, to DBA theses potentially exacerbates existing professional doctorate “image” issues, thereby leading to ambiguity for examiners and the candidates themselves.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2011
DOI: 10.5172/JMO.2011.17.5.670
Abstract: The challenge to embed sustainability in the formal curriculum has been greatest for the business studies curriculum. Schools of business have been perceived as key socialising agencies for the intelligentsia of advanced capitalist societies, whereas the students of sustainability need to be helped to critique the dominant capitalist paradigm and consider its alternatives. Drawing on a critical perspective of education for sustainability, this paper presents a detailed examination of the sustainability curriculum at a regional university in Australia. The paper contributes to the discussion needed to understand what sustainability skills are required by managers and how tertiary education programs may need to change to develop these skills. In this way the nature of the role that business schools should be playing in leading and managing change towards sustainability is further informed.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-02-2023
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-08-2015
Publisher: Dialectical Publishing
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4062-7.CH010
Abstract: Academics are charged with continuous and evidence-based curriculum improvement in a move toward more learner-centred teaching and assessment, whereby information and communication technologies increasingly facilitate this call. This chapter looks at technology enhanced teaching and learning in a university curriculum innovation. A major collaborative marketing plan assessment was designed to be undertaken in virtual or eteams in a compulsory first-year Marketing unit within a Bachelor of Business course. Using the Plan-Do-Study-Act improvement cycle, the efficacy of teamwork is evaluated for two successive delivery periods in 2011. Improvements to the eteam design are identified and implemented. It is found that external students can successfully conceptualise new products and develop marketing plans in a fully online learning environment. Further, with the improved eteam design, initial results suggest that teamwork is shifting from simply cooperative to genuinely collaborative.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-01-2022
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