Flowers For The World: Developing a Business Game to Support the Teaching of IS Concepts

Authors

Trevor T. Moores, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Jerry Cha-Jan Chang, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2001

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Seventh Americas Conference on Information Systems

Publisher

Association for Information Systems

First page number:

8

Last page number:

10

Abstract

One of the key problems in teaching fundamental concepts in information systems is how to ground the theory in experiences that the students can relate to. To overcome this problem, a business game called Flowers For The World has been developed and used across a wide variety of IS courses. This paper will describe the game and the result of using it for a 300-level course in analysis and design. The possibility exists that the game could be developed to provide a common business foundation across all business school curricula.

Keywords

Business – Study and teaching; Business games; Educational games; IS concepts; Management information systems – Study and teaching; Pedagogy; Simulation games in education

Disciplines

Education | Educational Methods | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Management Information Systems | Systems and Communications

Language

English

Comments

Conference held: Boston, MA

Permissions

Used with permission from the Association for Information Systems, Atlanta, GA; 404-413-7444; www.aisnet.org. All rights reserved.

Repository Citation

Moores, T. T., Chang, J. C. (2001). Flowers For The World: Developing a Business Game to Support the Teaching of IS Concepts. Proceedings of the Seventh Americas Conference on Information Systems 8-10.
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