Enhancing student learning of enterprise integration through ERP business simlation game

AIS SIGed: IAIM - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Informatics Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Seethamraju, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business processes; ERP; Integration; Pedagogy; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS OPERATION; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS SCHOOLS; BUSINESS SIMULATION; ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING; ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS; PEDAGOGY; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; SIMULATION; SIMULATION GAMES; TEACHING AND LEARNING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTEGRATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84866037395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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