JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION THEORY AND PRACTICE
Encouraging Information Search in Accounting Cases by Using Avatars as Sources – But Students Still Wanted to be Given the Information on Paper!
Author(s): Daphne Rixon, Michael D. Skipton
Citation: Daphne Rixon, Michael D. Skipton, (2018) "Encouraging Information Search in Accounting Cases by Using Avatars as Sources – But Students Still Wanted to be Given the Information on Paper!," Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, Vol.18, Iss. 2, pp. 88-101
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
Real-world relevance can be developed through classroom case pedagogy that has an in-situational
orientation, requires information search in and of the situation, and expects the use of this information
for in-situational analysis and critical thinking. This paper reports on a case-based pedagogical
developmental project using interactive avatars as situational sources of accounting information that
students needed to search for and find. Students preferred, however, to be given the information on paper, perhaps because this is what they had learned to expect. Powerful organizational processes in business schools militating against situation-analytical and real-world relevant teaching are identified.
