I HIGHLY recommend involvement in this cutting-edge
opportunity to you all--especially non-USA based
management faculty. Paul's group handles the technical
details of putting materials up on the website etc. You
mainly have to deliver your contribution of material to
him and they do the techie stuff. Paul is one of the most
ethical people in our profession with great credentials. See
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/shrivast/boss.html So I recommend that you go to the Socrates website:
http://www.environmentalintel.com/socrates and then contact Paul about how you can bring
your students into the new millennium with this world-class
program. I am sure that he will help you handle many
of the issues that you think might not work for you. He's
convinced me and I hope to have my students in this
in the Fall 1998 term.
Cybercollegially,
Charlie Wankel
netmaster mg-ed-dv
Paul wrote:
> Colleagues:
>
> I just joined this list after a long conversation with Charlie Wankel. He
> suggested what we are doing would be of interest to many of you. Here it is:
>
> We are initiating a Program to create Learning Communities via Team Teaching
> on the Internet. We will focus on certain areas of Business Studies
> including, - Entrepreneurship, International Business, Marketing, MIS,
> Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory, Operations Management,
> Personnel and Human Resources, Strategic Management, Stakeholder Management,
> and Environmental Management.
>
> We hope to get 7-10 Instructors per team (different countries, different
> orientations, diverse voices) to teach from a common (but customized) pool
> of materials jointly developed by the team. Instructors and outside experts
> will electronically visit each others class Bulletin Boards, plus interact
> in many other ways to implement the Socratic method of critical inquiry and
> dialogue on the Internet/WWW. For details please visit
>
>
http://www.environmentalintel.com/socrates/
>
> The Strategic Management Team has already attracted people from Italy,
> Mexico, UK, Canada and USA.
>
> By joining the teams, you get a FREE customized, comprehensive, and highly
> interactive teaching Web Site (with thousands of Web links, course
> materials, and a Digital Library) for your course. This form of teaching
> enhances class-room experience, by bringing rich and upto date WWW/Internet
> resources to students, empowers students for life long learning, makes
> teaching easier for faculty, and saves resources. Resources available at the
> site will include Online Courses and an elaborate Digital Library. We are
> also planning some unique interactivity features including:
>
> 1. Diversity Conversations: Get students to engage with ideologically,
> racially, ethnically, genderedly? diverse voices on class topics using
> threaded discussion bulletin board.
> 2. International Perspectives: Get students engaged in discussions with
> foriegn participants, via a well designed and moderated international listserv.
> 3. Leadership Mentoring: Get students to engage community, corporate, other
> leaders in mentoring discussions, via email and occassional chatroom.
>
> If you are interested please reply to this message with your,
>
> Name:
> University Address:
> Course Title:
> No of Students in this course each Year:
> How are you currently using the Internet in teaching?
> URL for your course Web site, if you do not have one, send us your course
> outline.
>
> Please forward this message to faculty who may be interested in exploring
> Internet based teaching. Visit our Web site to view the Socrates Program.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> ********************************************************************
>
> Dr. Paul Shrivastava
> The Socrates Program, Environmental Intelligence, Inc.
>
http://www.environmentalintel.com/socrates (Socrates Home Page)
>
> Howard I. Scott Professor of Management, Bucknell University (on leave)
>
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/shrivast/boss (resume)
>
http://www.environmentalintel.com/cgi-bin/socrates?coopm001 (Strategy Course)
>
> Tel: 717-523-0030; Fax: 717-523-0067
> email:
socrates@environmentalintel.com
> Address: Environmental Intelligence, Inc.
> 425 Pheasant Ridge Road, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA
>
> To join the Listserv for Business Teaching on the Web, Send the following
> message to
listserv@bucknell.edu subscribe teach-mgmt-on-web (your name)
>
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