Instructional Techniques and Delivery Formats in Capstone Business Courses

Abstract

As business schools increase the range of instructional techniques and delivery formats it is important to harmonize the learning objectives for business capstone experiences, a critical aspect of management education. This concept paper proposes an examination of the literature and practices relating to business school capstone experiences. After an overview of relevant research along with past and current practices, capstone course projects and assignments are discussed including case studies, international competitive simulation games, consultancy projects, and traditional lectures on strategic management. Concepts for balanced integration and synthesis of topics are proposed for different instructional methods and delivery formats. Using pedagogical content knowledge as a basis for improving teaching and learning is necessary to achieving balanced integration. It is our contention that all schools carefully examine their capstone courses in light of pedagogical content knowledge, instructional techniq...