2023, Jäger, Janine, Korkut, Safak, Inglese, Terry, Schmiedel, Theresa

The paper presents a project of the School of Business of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland in which the project team is developing case study podcasts together with Swiss-based technology startups to apply them in case-based teaching in Business and Information Systems study programs. The goal of the project is to facilitate students' access to case study contexts by allowing them to listen to podcasts for self-study and develop solutions for practice-oriented business and technology challenges in the classroom and guided group work. This provides an engaging blended learning approach for the students through increased motivation to consume the learning material as well as a deeper connection to the study material, compared to the more commonly applied text-based case studies. This can enable much more productive classroom discussions and group work and could therefore provide improved learning outcomes, such as increased reflection, critical thinking, as well as analytical and problem-solving skills. The paper enriches the blended learning debate with details about the case study podcast production from a content-related, technological and didactical perspective as well as provides insights into the planned evaluation of the application of case study podcasts with regard to learning outcomes.

2021, Vitacco, Jacqueline, Inglese, Terry, Ward, Andrea, Clarke, Elaine

The business communication curriculum often conceptualizes “audience” as the general public or an abstract community of practice. Employers, on the other hand, expect business-school graduates to produce person-centered writing. To bridge the disconnect, we compared student submissions to a contextualized writing assignment before and after instructor feedback using text analysis methods and multiple reviewers in order to establish whether the feedback was able to improve their ability to take someone’s perspective.

2020, Christen, Patrik, Inglese, Terry

Due to COVID-19, universities, higher education institutions, and schools all around the world had to shut down their on-site activities during the rst semester of the academic year 2020 and teaching had to continue in an entirely virtual setting, either asynchronously or synchronously, or in a blended learning style. Several instructors were not fully prepared to teach online and a fast adaptation to the new and unusual circumstances was needed. While this unfamiliar situation has brought technical and especially educational hurdles, instructors are currently preparing for the second semester 2020 with a new awareness, taking into account lessons learnt from the previous semester. In this abstract, we outline our instructional concept for virtually teaching a one-semester linear algebra course in the BSc program Business Information Technology at FHNW in Switzerland. Students of this study program are likely to hold management positions working at the intersection between business and IT, where it is essential to conceptually understand mathematical methods and concepts, and apply these in dynamic business projects, often involving artificial intelligence.

2018, Dornberger, Rolf, Inglese, Terry, Korkut, Safak, Zhong, Jia, Dornberger, Rolf

2022, Inglese, Terry, Fässler, Lukas, Christen, Patrik, Wang, Shui-Hua, Zhang, Yu-Dong

2020, Inglese, Terry, Gagliardi Trotman, Tiffany

2020, Menon, Dilip, Korkut, Safak, Inglese, Terry, Dornberger, Rolf, Dornberger, Rolf

Today, all smartphones contain a variety of embedded sensors capable of monitoring and measuring relevant physical qualities and quantities, such as light or noise intensity, rotation and acceleration, magnetic field, humidity, etc. Combining data from these different sensors and deriving new practical information is the way to enhance the capabilities of such sensors, known as sensor fusion or multimodal sensing. However, the authors hypothesize that the sensing technology that is embedded in smartphones may also support daily life task management. Because one of the biggest challenges in mobile sensing on smartphones is the lack of appropriate unified data analysis models and common software toolkits, the authors have developed a prototype for a mobile sensing architecture, called Sensing Things Done (STD). With this prototype, by applying multimodal sensing and gathering sensor data from performing a specific set of tasks, the authors were able to conduct a feasibility study to investigate the hypothesis set above. Having examined to what extent the task-related activities could be detected automatically by using sensors of a standard smartphone, the authors of this chapter describe the conducted study and provide derived recommendations

2021, Vitacco, Jacqueline, Inglese, Terry

The business communication curriculum often conceptualizes "audience" as an abstract discourse community. Employers on the other hand expect business-school graduates to produce person-centered writing. To bridge the gap, we compared student submissions for a contextualized writing assignment before and after instructor intervention using text analysis methods and multiple reviewers.

2020, Inglese, Terry, Korkut, Safak, Dornberger, Rolf

This chapter presents the instructional design of a language-training model for professional and vocational purposes on behalf of the Swiss railway industry, specifically designed for German-speaking train drivers and train operators, who work for the Schweizerische Südostbahn (SOB). In fact, around 50 train drivers and train operators need to learn Italian and be able to communicate clearly and confidently in this language by 2021. Thanks to the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2016, some Swiss railway companies are expanding their business portfolios also in the Italian speaking region of Switzerland. Augmented Reality (AR), specifically the Blippar app, is used here as an additional and motivating guide to learning technical terms and nouns, verbs, and dialogue structures, in short: essential railway communication features between train drivers and train operators. The final goal of the chapter is to describe how railway professional trainees, learning a new language, are actively designing their own language learning contents, using AR.

2019, Inglese, Terry, von Kutzschenbach, Michael, Witschel, Hans Friedrich

Contrary to the dominant appearance of the topic ‘digitalization,’ a majority of managers do not know what it means and how they can leverage the development of new technologies and disruptive innovations for their business. Furthermore, doing business is getting increasingly complex due to globalization and specialization. Thus, it looks like everybody is hyperactively looking for an external solution to their managerial challenges while, at the same time, managers seem to have lost their intuition for future direction and are unable to step back and think about intended and unintended consequences of the digital revolution. We, who provide business management education for future leaders, are concerned about this development and teach our students to appreciate the discomfort with the hard work of thinking and reflecting to learn from the insights about innovation, strategy and personal development to achieve improved leadership competence. In this paper, we will present our lessons learnt from asking students of a leadership class at an applied university to write a reflective journal for deep learning purpose.