Management Principles & Concepts

Management Principles and Concepts

Grant Recipients:

Faculty Adoptions:

Sheri Schulte, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Management
Scott Bible, Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Management
Joseph Fox, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Management
Yohann Mauger, Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Management
Ranjani Varaghur, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Management
Colleen Teague, Associate Professor, Business & Office Technology, Wayne College

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Project Synopsis:

Professor Schulte, the Management Principles Course Coordinator, is chaired a faculty committee with the following goals in mind:

Better align this required course with 2016 Ohio TAG requirements.
Research more affordable textbook options.
Enhance consistency across all course sections while maintaining instructor flexibility.
Ensure appropriate learning outcome alignment with another course (Organizational Behavior) course (noting that Ohio TAG added some OB learning outcomes). Ohio TAG Requirements include 10 Learning Outcomes with 68 associated topics. Our new open textbook covers all but five topics.

The faculty committee, (Scott Bible, Yohann Mauger, Joe Fox, & Sheri Schulte) has accomplished the following tasks to date: Eight textbooks (including open education resources) were evaluated against Ohio TAG requirements, an open educational resource was selected, course design has been finalized, module PowerPoints were developed. Syllabus, test bank and assignment/activity development are in progress.

Through the adoption of these open textbook materials, in addition to content authored by the faculty, this course was able to eliminate a $93.00 textbook.

45% of students surveyed in this course reported that they were somewhat or extremely unlikely to purchase the textbook solely due to cost.

100% of the students surveyed said that we should continue utilizing open textbooks / resources for this course.

Quotes from Students:

“It just feels better to have free access to something rather than stress over the big price tag of books you purchase themselves.”

“This textbook was organized and the information was presented in a manner that increased my retention.”

“It took some stress away from money, so I could focus more on the actual work.”

“It is nice to have my book on the computer where I can easily search words or pages instead of flipping through a book or looking through an index.”

Quotes from Faculty:

“In my class, having access to the textbook day 1 really helps students engage with the material quickly and removes any barriers (and excuses) to doing so. The textbook includes some very good assignments that I use to help the students further engage with the material. Students are genuinely appreciative that we are working to get them access to more affordable resources.”
--Professor Sheri Schulte