IBUS Digital Teaching Initiatives

1. Peer reviews of online international business teaching modules will be posted publicly on the MERLOT website, allowing faculty to select and use the highest quality materials within their existing courses. Because MERLOT is a free gateway, this project will not only have direct benefits to SFSU faculty and students, but faculty at any institution in the world could access the International Business modules within MERLOT.
2. In the College of Business, a core MBA course in management taught by the project director will utilize and integrate online modules located within MERLOT. International business topics relevant to helping U.S. companies to manage change and innovation in a global context will be researched and reviewed, and a key project will require students to base their research on a search of online teaching modules and resources within the MERLOT repository. The course will also require students to create online web-based course portfolios, utilizing select online teaching modules they have identified in MERLOT. Close faculty supervision of students in this graduate course will also result in developing guidelines for identifying high quality international business materials on the web, classifying and categorizing them, and adding them to the pool of modules that will then be peer-reviewed by MERLOT's team of qualified faculty in international business.
3. In addition, select faculty from each of the nine disciplines in the College of Business (accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, decision sciences, hospitality management, information systems, international business, management, and marketing) will be invited to participate in a pilot program aimed at integrating relevant on-line International Business modules from MERLOT into their courses. As part of the pilot program, the project director will design and deliver a special faculty development workshop that introduces how on-line modules from the various business disciplines within MERLOT can be used to internationalize curricula, with goal of arriving at several demonstrations projects in the College.