Prepared as a guide to assist business educators in meeting the need for data processing education, this handbook presents guidelines for incorporating data processing into existing business education classes in Wisconsin high schools and developing separate courses. Introductory materials include statements of goals and objectives, definitions of…

Based on action research of the Information Processing (IP) course at the bachelor programme HA/DOK at Copenhagen Business School, we investigate which barriers students experience when learning holistic systems development and why. HA/DOK has been developed to educate students who can facilitate between users and programmers and navigate within…

This article presents the results of research that gathered data about undergraduate information systems curricula and compared it to previous studies and the IS 2009 working model curriculum which is now named IS 2010 Model Curriculum after final approval. Data was collected from the websites of 240 colleges and universities identified as having…

The purpose of this study was to propose a curriculum for preparing business communication teachers. The 130 research subjects were selected from 65 institutions accredited by the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. The study resulted in five proposed business communication curricula. Respondents' philosophies on two questions…

A variety of techniques available for individualizing instruction that do not require the complete abandonment of traditional teaching procedures are presented for the business education teacher. (LH)

Discusses the necessity of keeping the business education curriculum current. Covers teaching shorthand, teaching typewriting on typewriters, administrative support courses, and business communication. (JOW)

Approaches utilized at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, are described in an effort to illustrate how the instruction of office management procedures procedures can be made more interesting to students and effect an improved image of the importance of office management as the object of study. (AG)

The implications that word processing will have on management as a technique is discussed. The effect on secretaries, their skills, and how it will affect their jobs necessitates including word processing in planning curriculums for business education. (DS)

The survival of business education depends on how well we predict the future in developing a curriculum and how well we promote it on national, state, and local levels. (Author)

Word processing can be integrated into business courses, even if the school system doesn't have funds for word processing equipment. The basics of word processing have always been taught by business education teachers; however, it is now time to integrate more specifics regarding word processing skills, terminology, and concepts. (CT)

Business education can play a pivotal role in the tech prep movement. Tech prep is based on proven practices that have been used in business education. The expanded basics as well as keyboarding/computer skills have long been taught in business education. (JOW)

This article will review the current situation of undergraduate service operations education and will describe the direction that recent educational changes are taking. Given these needs and direction, a proposed curriculum for an undergraduate service operations course is presented. Lastly, a discussion of how undergraduate service operations…

This article describes procedures for developing and operating a classroom company, to integrate the study of money and business management into the daily curriculum. The article covers planning, organizing, writing learning contracts, integrating company activities into the curriculum, creating company product ideas, defining company officer…