出版社：International Association for Computer Information Systems
摘要：According to studies conducted by business organizations and employer associations as it relates to U.S. college graduates (SHRM 2007), college graduates are ill prepared for the business environment, in part due to their lack of expertise with technology. Indeed, the popular press indicates that our students fall behind in STEM areas – science, technology/ engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Rather than the United States leading the world in innovation in these fields, we are falling far behind as a country and losing our competitive advantage. Among the solutions offered to combat this erosion in competitive position and respect within the world economic community is integration of both critical thinking skill building and technology into the core curricula. This reported study describes an attempt to utilize existing technology at a small, Master’s I level university to engage students in critical thinking skill building during an on-line business course with a Blackboard® instructional platform. Less than 50% of the students in a distance-learning HR business course actively and consistently embraced and engaged in using the required technology.
关键词：Critical thinking; Case Study;Blackboard; Technology Acceptance Model;Readiness to Learn; STEM; competitive;advantage
