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Publication Date: 2015
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Promoting Problem-Based Learning in Retailing and Services Marketing Course Curricula with Reality Television
Rosenbaum, Mark S.; Otalora, Mauricio Losada; Ramírez, Germán Contreras
Journal of Education for Business, v90 n4 p182-191 2015
This research provides business educators who teach retailing and services courses with an innovative way to encourage students to engage in problem-based learning solving by incorporating reality television into their curricula. The authors explore the reality television genre from several theoretical perspectives to lend support to the conclusion that reality programs easily captivate their audiences by stimulating self-involvement. The authors present an assignment based on B. S. Bloom's (1956) revised taxonomy that educators can employ when incorporating reality programming into their courses. They then provide data to demonstrate direct and indirect measures of learning outcomes associated with reality programming in business curricula.
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Correlation, Business Administration Education, Television, Programming (Broadcast), Taxonomy, Retailing, Instructional Innovation, Outcomes of Education, Marketing, Creativity, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Assignments, Theory Practice Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Surveys
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Romania; United States
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