TLT CoffeeRead: Making business courses better through video games
Posted on September 30, 2008
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Making business courses better through video games
“How can colleges attract information-technology students? By using video-game-like technology to trick them into thinking the assignments are cool.
That’s the approach San Francisco State University is taking, according to Sam Gill, a professor of information systems there. Gill’s class is intended to introduce students to “business-process management” – a field of IT that studies how workers perform certain tasks and uses technology to improve them. “Normally students go to McDonalds and see how they sell a burger,” Gill tells us. But now his students study a fictional business that IBM set up inside a computerized virtual world.”
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