Innovative Ways to Teach Software Skills

Laura McManamon
University of Dayton, MIS Department
Dayton, OH, 45424, USA

and

Barbara Miller
 Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
Columbus, IN, 47448 USA

and

Roger Carlsen
Wright State University, Department of Educational Leadership
Fairborn, OH, 45324, USA


Panelists will each discuss a variety of creative ways to teach software skills.  The audience will then be asked to share their experiences and comments about software skills learning.


Barbara Miller
The following topics will be presented:  delivering skills courses to groups in a large state university setting, student teaching involvement with peer tutors, teaching assistants, and MBA Associate Instructors.  The Associate Instructor training and the lab files that are tools for learning will also be discussed.


Roger Carlsen
Teaching techniques based on personalized project grouping and support teams based on individualized self-determined selection procedures will be explained.  Online session strategies, including front-loaded, face-to-face sessions, and post learning curve virtual sessions will be examined.

Laura McManamon
Delivering skills courses to students in a private university setting is the focus of this discussion.  Successes and failures for the following learning activities will be highlighted:  using students as teachers for Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft Office, using independent study with computer-based training or text only and using computer testing for Microsoft Office software.