ERIC Number: EJ1414138
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-1055-3096
EISSN: EISSN-2574-3872
Teaching Tip: IS Capstone Course Design: Quasi-Internships Using Harvard Business Cases
Pamella Howell; Arun Aryal
Journal of Information Systems Education, v35 n1 p14-24 2024
Quasi-internships can have a transformative impact on information systems' capstone courses. Realizing this potential depends on pedagogical design, course delivery, and student engagement. This paper presents a teaching method based on experiential-learning pedagogical design to engage students via quasi-internships to improve career preparedness and team dynamics. This teaching tip provides a procedure for converting typical Harvard Business Cases into more experiential quasi-internships. We provide a 16-week outline of the typical deliverables for six IS career trajectories aligned with the model information systems curriculum. Instructors can customize these procedures to fit their course- and module-level objectives. The assessment of students' feedback provides support for our customized quasi-internship methodology.
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Capstone Experiences, Information Systems, Information Science Education, Course Objectives, Business Administration, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Universities, Teaching Methods, Teamwork, Career Development, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Experiential Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts (Boston)
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