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Bridging General Education And The Business Discipline: Surfacing Central Themes Through A Core Course, Jennifer Dose Feb 2019

Bridging General Education And The Business Discipline: Surfacing Central Themes Through A Core Course, Jennifer Dose

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General education and business major courses often follow parallel paths with little intersection or appreciation of the other. Students benefit, however, by seeing key themes and skills linked to both general education and specialized disciplinary courses. Giving specific attention to Christian institutions, this paper argues for more intentional connections between these two parts of the curriculum, highlighting their common ideals of shared learning, shared connections as human beings, practical skills, institutional distinctiveness, and integration. One strategy to overcome the bifurcation of general education and business curricula has been to ground institutional distinctives within a core course experience, which can then …


A Teaching Strategy For A Christian Virtual Environment, Andrew Babyak Apr 2015

A Teaching Strategy For A Christian Virtual Environment, Andrew Babyak

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The current landscape in education is changing rapidly as online learning programs are experiencing great growth. As online learning grows, many professors and students are entering into new learning environments for the first time. While online learning has proven to be successful in many cases, it is not a journey upon which Christian professors or students should begin without some preparation. This article articulates a basic Christian teaching strategy by providing recommendations for those who are entering the online environment for the first time or desire to improve their online teaching effectiveness. These principles and recommendations are presented so that …