Business students invest their time in complex and challenging process digitalization tasks instead of preparing for the exam

Abstract

One of the big challenges today are innovative teaching concepts for business students in the area of digitalization. At the beginning of their study, students mostly know only basics of IT mainly related to their private (mobile) environment and not real business scenarios such as business process management or workflow management. The objective of this paper is to outline how students invest relevant in for the final grade relevant parts, that means into the evaluated group work and final exam. Students invest the same amount of time into challenging group works that count only 30% of the final grade than into the final examination that counts more (70%). It is also reflected in the evaluation that working on complex group work is the most exciting part within an innovative teaching concept for business students in the area of business process and project management.