Obstacles and Opportunities for Technological Innovation in Business Teaching and Learning

Pressure to change business education is rising. Lectures, where students listen to an expert academic should be the exception rather than the rule. A reliance on passive learning tasks reflects an informationtransmission concept of teaching which produces inferior learning outcomes. Incorporating new learning and assessment tasks can improve learning outcomes. Since technology is one source of innovation currently in the spotlight, this paper describes the opportunities and the obstacles to improving outcomes through technological innovation. If business academics are to optimise educational innovation, more rigorous design, implementation and evaluation is needed. JEL Classification: A22, A23, O33.

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