Abstract
Cross-cultural negotiation courses have been taught for many years both at graduate and undergraduate levels, using conventional pedagogical approaches such as classroom-based lectures, material readings, and paper-pencil based negotiation exercises. In the contemporary world of higher education, it is often expressed by the faculty that students show lack of enthusiasm, interest, and motivation to actively participate in such learning activities. Moreover, semesters after semesters faculty find students becoming less and less engaged in conventional learning activities. In this learning atmosphere, as teachers, we find it really challenging to create and maintain a minimum level of the required interest in students and motivate them to pay attention, ask questions, and participate actively in classroom sessions. Therefore, in this study we propose to the faculty who are teaching negotiation related courses to use software-based teaching strategy in order to engage students in a more enjoyable manner and provide them with an interactive learning environment.
Highlights
Cross-cultural negotiation courses have been taught for many years both at graduate and undergraduate levels, using conventional pedagogical approaches such as classroom-based lectures, material readings, and paper-pencil based negotiation exercises
With the advent of information and communication technologies (ICT), the millennial students are found to be fond of ICT related and ICT based activities
In order to study the benefits of a software-based teaching strategy, a negotiation software namely “iDecisionGames” was incorporated into the course of cross culture negotiation and communication, during the semester of August−December 2018
Summary
They like and prefer to work with technology related products and services. They are more efficient in performing technology-based activities and tasks. With the advent of information and communication technologies (ICT), the millennial students are found to be fond of ICT related and ICT based activities. These students use ICT for almost every activity they need to carry out whether it is inter-personal communication, doing school assignments or conducting routine social affairs. Is the use of technology like software in teaching effective in motivating students to be engaged in learning?. Which are the potential pros and cons of using educational technologies such as a software, as a pedagogical support system?
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