Nancy Hess wrote:
I have difficulty requiring students to purchase two texts. I am a lecturer
and not a professor, and don't want to offend academic sensibilities, but my
previous experience with HR texts leads me to secretly want to chuck the
whole textbook idea, present principles and concepts through lecture, and
have students focus on readings instead of a textbook outside of class. Any
advice would be welcome.
Nancy (and others fed up of using Textbooks in general)
Those of you who are looking for alternatives to textboks may wish to
consider using Internet Resources as the primary resources to teach
courses. eSocrates offers a number of ready to use and customizable Web
based courses in business studies (www.esocrates.com). Here are some
courses that extensively use online learning materials and make textbooks
unnecessary or at least supplementary.
Human Resources Management
http://www.esocrates.com/cgi-bin/socrates.cgi?HRweb001
Strategic Management
http://www.esocrates.com/cgi-bin/socrates.cgi?coopm001
Intro to Marketing
http://www.esocrates.com/cgi-bin/socrates.cgi?mark001
You can insert your own syllabus into these sites, add URLs of resources
you want, and custom tailor the course for your own use. Prof. Charles
Wankel the owner of this MG-ED-DV List has a lot of experience in using
this type of online courseware. He has himself developed several
innovative exercises that are available for your use.
Give us a call if you want to try it out.
Dr. Paul Shrivastava
Bucknell University and eSocrates.com
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