Translate Decrease font size Increase font size Display options Listen Send to Google Drive™ Send to Microsoft OneDrive™ Email Download Print Main content This article reports on the development in recent years, across the United States, of programs in journalism schools and some other units of higher education that borrow from the "teaching hospital" model, following…
Producing digital and interactive journalistic products offers unique and important new learning opportunities for journalism education. This study analysed the experiences of two pilot courses on so-called 'newsgames' in a Finnish university in 2015 and 2017. The data consisted of the newsgames and other materials produced by the students, student feedback concerning the course and observation…
A competency-based course on the fundamentals of management communications has been developed. The course utilized a list of competencies and behavioral objectives for each of the four developed modules. Competency-based education has been chosen as the ideal approach to teaching since it is built around behaviorally state objectives which are easy to observe and measure. The approach also allo…
Students' communication skills can be sharpened through a communication across the curriculum program which develops community service learning (CSL) projects. Students are required to perform certain services for a nonprofit group under the CSL project. The organization itself can determine its needs or the business communications professor can suggest services which the students can do for th…
This article analyses the rising relevance of online news platforms in the Arab region, particularly those created after the social uprisings that commenced in late 2010 in Tunisia and spread across the southern Mediterranean basin. As the online environment does not contemplate borders, the article refers to the term 'Arab', as these initiatives aimed at reaching regional audiences. However, t…
A study of 32 top-ranked MBA programs suggests that management communication is an important part of professional graduate management education. Eighteen of the schools have required core courses in communication, and two other schools follow an integrated model and also offer electives; another nine offer electives only. A total of four schools also have writing proficiency requirements, and a…
Jan M. Ulijn and Judith B. Strother's new book is unusual in the way it brings linguistic theory to bear on international business practices. It seems intended primarily for businesspeople who contemplate doing business in other countries, but it should interest anyone who wishes to understand the most recent studies of how humans actually produce and process information. With a reference list …
A new course dealing with the effects of the emergence of new communications technologies on business is presented. The course, which is intended for students at the junior-senior level, aims to study strategies for choosing appropriate channels for specific communication situations and for choosing technologies suited to an organization's business needs. The course attempts to shed light on th…
Business educators face the challenge of operationalizing the global converging initiatives of technology integration and inclusion of students with a disability in K-12 education. A survey of business educators was conducted to ascertain how they were implementing these initiatives in the United States. Results indicated that business educators received little training andfelt moderately prepa…
The job satisfaction of journalists is a crucial aspect of the media industry, which is highly reliant on the experience and qualification of its journalists, particularly the Arab media, which were increasingly under the spotlight as prime global news resources during the Arab Spring pro-democracy protests. An example of quality reporting during this time was the pan-Arabic television network,…