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Enhancing Students Learning Through Practical Knowledge Taught By Industry Professionals

International Business & Economics Research Journal

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Title Enhancing Students Learning Through Practical Knowledge Taught By Industry Professionals
 
Creator Rajaratnam, Kanshukan
Campbell, Anita
 
Subject Finance; Academic Support Programme for Engineering
Guest Speaker; Curriculum Development; Finance; Theory and Practice
 
Description A topic of interest in teaching businesscourses is incorporating the practical aspect of the subject matter intoteaching as this helps to bridge theory and real-world practice. Research indicates that students gain a deeperunderstanding of material when theory is contextualized through real-lifepractical examples. However, given thetraditional career-path of academics in finance in countries such as SouthAfrica, a significant proportion of finance lecturers have little or norelevant practical experience in the subject matter. In this paper, we discuss a strategyimplemented in finance courses at sophomore and senior levels in order to linktheory and practice. Guest speakers were invited from industry to contextualize the topics for the students. Students perceptions on the benefit they derived from the speakers were deduced from statistical analyses of student evaluations. The results indicate that the experience waspositive and aided in their understanding of the subject.
 
Publisher The Clute Institute
 
Date 2013-05-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.cluteinstitute.com/ojs/index.php/IBER/article/view/7875
10.19030/iber.v12i6.7875
 
Source International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER); Vol 12 No 6 (2013); 717-724
2157-9393
1535-0754
10.19030/iber.v12i6
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.cluteinstitute.com/ojs/index.php/IBER/article/view/7875/7934