ERIC Number: EJ1108821
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 16
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Using Digital Storytelling to Engage Student Learning
Suwardy, Themin; Pan, Gary; Seow, Poh-Sun
Accounting Education, v22 n2 p109-124 2013
No one really knows what the first story ever told in human history was, but storytelling is an art that spans many civilizations and cultures, and continues to be a major part of our modern lives. More recently, storytelling has gone digital with advances in technology and connectivity. Educators have also rediscovered how storytelling can be an effective teaching pedagogy for engaged student learning. A digital story can engage students' visual and auditory senses in a way that the written word alone cannot. This article describes such an effort. The Movie-Door-2-Door.com (MD2D) is a digital story spanning 12 episodes. The story revolves around three young business graduates who started their own business and discovered the role of financial information in managing a business along the way. An independent survey by the University's teaching unit showed that the use of such digital stories can be an appropriate pedagogy to help student contextualize accounting and its role in helping management make decisions. The first four episodes of the MD2D digital story are available for viewing at www.research.smu.edu.sg/faculty/MD2D/.
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Story Telling, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, College Students, Accounting, Foreign Countries, Vignettes, Business, Student Surveys
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore
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