Dear fellow MED member,
These are complicated times, and injecting some humor into our teaching is arguably both more important and trickier than at any point in recent memory. I would be very grateful for your help in this endeavor.
At the last AoM annual meeting, I co-led a workshop titled "Bringing Humor to Management Education: Lessons from Collaborating with a Stand-up Comedian". My co-facilitator was the remarkable Sammy Obeid, a record-setting standup comedian, graduate of Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and host of "100 Humans" on Netflix. Our workshop was voted the best session at the annual meeting's Teaching and Learning Conference, and if you missed it, you can watch it on https://tinyurl.com/aomworkshop2.
Our workshop consisted of a presentation of TBS Business School's collaboration with Sammy Obeid on creating humorous educational videos, followed by a brainstorming exercise about the topic of our next video. You can find the resulting three-minute video about expectancy theory of motivation on The TBS Open Teaching and Learning Resources site.
To help us in our work on bringing humor to management education, it would be most helpful if you could take several minutes to answer our questionnaire (you can do it even if you did not watch the recording of the workshop or the resulting humorous educational video): https://tinyurl.com/aom2020-tbs As a thank you, we will be happy to send you a transcript of our AoM workshop, a detailed report on TBS Business School's collaboration with Sammy Obeid, a 12-page teaching note for the expectancy theory video, and a documentary about the creative process behind the video.
If you have any comments on our work, please do not hesitate to contact me at davidstolin@live.com.
Thank you in advance and warm regards,
David
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Dr. David Stolin
TBS Business School
Toulouse
FRANCE
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