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Socrates invites Business School faculty to participate in a unique
collaborative online learning project in business courses. Bring your
courses into the 21st Century, a little ahead of time.

In this program, participants jointly develop a pool of common teaching
materials composed of Modules. A module is like a chapter in a book or a
case study (about 15 to 20 pages) with hot links to relevant Internet
resources. Our goal is to have about 30 text modules and 30 case studies in
each course. Socrates converts all modules for WWW delivery.

Participants receive a FREE fully customized and interactive Web site for
their course, and access to these online teaching modules. They participate
in electronic visits to course bulletin boards by posting messages on topics
of interest to them. Web experience is not necessary for participating.
Students become Web savvy thru this method of learning. Students save money
by using our inexpensive online materials.

In Fall 1998, we will offer online materials for Strategic
Management/Business Policy, Corporate Environmental Management, and
Introduction to Marketing courses. Stakeholder Management Modules will also
be available shortly.

Please visit our site at:

http://www.environmentalintel.com/socrates

Tell us what you would like to contribute to our pool of materials. We have
a list of available modules at:

http://www.environmentalintel.com/Content/Strat/01/Index.htm for
Strategic Management

http://www.environmentalintel.com/Content/Env/EM001/Index.html for
Environmental Management

You can contribute by adding a module to these lists or contribute a case
study. If you cannot contribute a module but still wish to teach with our
common pool of materials, please get back to us.

Please pass this message to your school faculty. Thanks







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Dr. Paul Shrivastava
President, Environmental Intelligence, Inc.
Howard I. Scott Professor of Management, Bucknell University (on leave)
Tel: 717-523-0030; Fax: 717-523-0067; email: socrates@environmentalintel.com
Address: 425 Pheasant Ridge Road, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA
http://www.environmentalintel.com/socrates (Socrates Home Page)
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Again, the Socrates Project for web-based teaching of
management is something that we all should go with.
This is particularly a solution for non-USA based schools in
a time when cutting-edge course materials are expensive
in many countries. I know that Paul is even willing to offer
financial concessions for courses that you might teach
in countries with emerging economies. As a Fulbrighter
last year in such a place I certainly regret not being
able to do this then.
But, I warn you! That once you phone or email him
--you are certain to be mesmerized into believing that
this program is the only way to go--as I am! And
rightly so.
Cybercollegially,
Charlie Wankel
netmaster mg-ed-dv

Socrates wrote:

> Socrates invites Business School faculty to participate in a unique
> collaborative online learning project in business courses. Bring your
> courses into the 21st Century, a little ahead of time.
>
> In this program, participants jointly develop a pool of common teaching
> materials composed of Modules. A module is like a chapter in a book or a
> case study (about 15 to 20 pages) with hot links to relevant Internet
> resources. Our goal is to have about 30 text modules and 30 case studies in
> each course. Socrates converts all modules for WWW delivery.
>
> Participants receive a FREE fully customized and interactive Web site for
> their course, and access to these online teaching modules. They participate
> in electronic visits to course bulletin boards by posting messages on topics
> of interest to them. Web experience is not necessary for participating.
> Students become Web savvy thru this method of learning. Students save money
> by using our inexpensive online materials.
>
> In Fall 1998, we will offer online materials for Strategic
> Management/Business Policy, Corporate Environmental Management, and
> Introduction to Marketing courses. Stakeholder Management Modules will also
> be available shortly.
>
> Please visit our site at:
>
> http://www.environmentalintel.com/socrates
>
> Tell us what you would like to contribute to our pool of materials. We have
> a list of available modules at:
>
> http://www.environmentalintel.com/Content/Strat/01/Index.htm for
> Strategic Management
>
> http://www.environmentalintel.com/Content/Env/EM001/Index.html for
> Environmental Management
>
> You can contribute by adding a module to these lists or contribute a case
> study. If you cannot contribute a module but still wish to teach with our
> common pool of materials, please get back to us.
>
> Please pass this message to your school faculty. Thanks
>
> ********************************************************************
> Dr. Paul Shrivastava
> President, Environmental Intelligence, Inc.
> Howard I. Scott Professor of Management, Bucknell University (on leave)
> Tel: 717-523-0030; Fax: 717-523-0067; email: socrates@environmentalintel.com
> Address: 425 Pheasant Ridge Road, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA
> http://www.environmentalintel.com/socrates (Socrates Home Page)
> Join the Listserv for Business Teaching on the Web, Send the following
> message to listserv@bucknell.edu subscribe teach-mgmt-on-web (your name)
> ******************************************************************

To those of you evaluating Internet based, on-line managment education tools a
reminder to look at www.study.net. Study.Net has finished its beta test in
eight biz schools and is available to profs at no cost. No support required
from college computer personnel.

Dear list member,

Your proposition to participate in a unique collaborative on-line learning
project in business courses sounds very interesting.

ISEMI is an extension of Swinburne University of technology in Israel and
focus on the teaching of Entrepreneurship.

Do you have any business modules available ?

Can you tell us more about how we can co operate ?

Many thanks in advance.

Dr. Liora katzenstein.
President
ISEMI
Israel School of Entrepreneurial Management and Innovation.

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Dr Liora Katzenstein, Forum International
12A Meskin Street, Tel Baruch, ISRAEL
Tel: (972)(3)648-2717 Fax: (972)(3)648-2602

Thank you for the encouraging words. I have a suspicion we may be focusing on similar topics "Entrepreneurial Management and Innovation" because I think everyone is an entrepreneurial manager, even though most people don't realize it.

I'm partnering with a local Business College and an excellent ISP and we're all at the messy, baby-step level when it comes to WBT. We're evaluating authoring/administrative programs, interactive environments, budgets, marketing methods, selecting SMEs, organizing modules and assessment tools. That sounded very organized and mature but we'll probably create the modules with HTML and use a web-aware interactive database for tracking students/creating assessments and threaded email for discussion groups. TopClass, etc, etc are proprietary environments and I've never liked being held hostage to a proprietary environment.

I hope you can help me with an issue that's been bothering me. I started in the computer/telecommunication industries as a sales rep, manager, trainer and speaker and have focused on sales and management skills (same skills, different labels) for the last five years. I know how to effectively present information to diverse audiences that result in implementation and retention of information. My biggest roadblock is that I do not have any formal training in instructional design (and, big surprise, nobody at the Business College has either) The listservs that I subscribe to are adamant about applying "good instructional design methodology". I've been all over the web and I can't seem to find a definition, that I understand, of the components involved in good, or bad, instructional design. Perhaps this a case of "paralysis by analysis" but I'd feel much better if I had a blueprint of what is involved in "good instructional design." Maybe there isn't any criteria for the web because it's a new environment and the rules are still being determined?

What process did you use to prepare your modules? What interactive features are you using? Are you finding WBT students, or instructors, are different? What would you change about your presentation/design? What have you found to be effective and why? Not effective and why? Marketing? Many questions. Or, maybe you would help us by reviewing the modules as we bring them up and offer suggestions? Once our modules are going, we can cross-link to your presentations.

Experience is a very expensive instructor. I'm trying to spend our time/money effectively during the planning stages and would appreciate any suggestions, or information, that you think would be useful.

Thank you.

Christie Mason
Managers Forum

> Thank you for the encouraging words. I have a suspicion we may be
> focusing on similar topics "Entrepreneurial Management and
> Innovation" because I think everyone is an entrepreneurial manager,
> even though most people don't realize it.
>

The distinction between "good" management and "entrepreneurial" management
is admitedly fuzzy but I find it useful to keep them separate conceptually.
Not everyone is an entrepreneur, although many more than those who act in
the role at any point in time may be capable of entrepreneurship. But there
is a difference in the resource stewardship function of management and the
enterprise creation or regeneration, without regard to resources presently
controlled, function of the entrepreneur. Even more complicating the same
person frequently performs both roles at various times.

I would like to be added to your list of those interested in online learning
in this subject area.

K. E. Loucks
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada