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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Hazari, Sunil; Thompson, Sandra – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2015
With the widespread popularity of distance learning, there is a need to investigate elements of online courses that continue to pose significant challenges for educators. One of the challenges relates to creating and managing group projects. This study investigated business students' perceptions of group work in online classes. The constructs…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Business Administration Education, Student Attitudes, College Students
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Kliegl, Julie A.; Weaver, Kari D. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
Business educators recognize the importance of developing teamwork as an employability skill. However, current methods used to teach teamwork have been met with mixed results from both students and educators. This article integrates research on the importance of teamwork, team development processes, and coteaching through examining a case study…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Business Administration Education, Teamwork
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Guo, Shujie; Cockburn-Wootten, Cheryl; Munshi, Debashish – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
The intercultural divides in values, perceptions, and interpretations of concepts have been studied extensively by international business and intercultural communication scholars. Consequentially, much effort in university classrooms is spent on focusing on the differences between groups and on finding ways to "manage" cultural…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Case Studies, Cultural Pluralism, Reflection
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Pope-Ruark, Rebecca; Ransbury, Paige; Brady, Mia; Fishman, Rachel – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
This case study, an example of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research, explores student motivations to collaborate with both peer teams and community partners in a service-learning course. Written by one instructor and three undergraduates, the article draws on personal narratives, student reflections, and a postcourse student…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students, Personal Narratives
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Rapanta, Chrysi; Nickerson, Catherine; Goby, Valerie Priscilla – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
In this article, we describe a project in which undergraduate business seniors at a university in the Arabian Gulf created or evaluated the chapters of an iBook as part of their final course in business communication. Students were surveyed throughout the project, and they also participated in a focus group discussion at the end. The aim was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Communication, Undergraduate Students, College Seniors