TY  - CPAPER
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Carugati, Andrea
A1  - Cunha, João Vieira
A1  - Mocker, Martin
A1  - Fernández, Walter
T1  - IS education for executives : joys and pains
T2  - Building a better world through information Systems : International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2014), Auckland, New Zealand, 14 - 17 December 2014 ; 21. Panels
N2  - Executive education in IS is under the scrutiny of many institution for the potential to bring in financial revenues. However teaching executives can be a very challenging task because of the previous experiences, variation in their previous education, and multiplicity of motivations for pursuing a continuous education. The panel aims at sharing successful experiences and highlighting challenges of dealing with executive audiences. The panel will present the results of a large survey among executive students and identify the three most significant elements emerged from the survey: the importance of theory that is actionable, the importance of varied pedagogical tools and practices, and the importance of relevance beyond practical tools. Based on a survey that will be distributed to the audience at the beginning of the panel, the audience will be actively engaged in sharing their experiences on the three topics aiming at capitalize and sum up the collective knowledge of the room.
KW  - executive education
KW  - actionable theory
KW  - pedagogical practices
KW  - relevance in teaching
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-7212
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-7212
UR  - http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2014/proceedings/Panels/6/
UR  - http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1277&context=icis2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
S1  - 7
ER  -