Implementation of Experiential Business Applications

Abstract

Current trends in business education are towards an entrepreneurship course that allows the student to apply classroom concepts learned in the school of business to actual business situations. While this may fit the needs of some students, other graduates find it difficult to meet the realities of the business world. Students in all areas of education also face the same transition when they are suddenly removed from an academic environment with its assumptions and limitations, to an environment where they are thrust into situations requiring them to apply classroom learning for the first time. Students in the education department preparing for a career in teaching, however, are exposed to their actual teaching environment before graduation, under the watchful eye and guidance of a supervisor. Cannot business provide the same experience for its students? It was this question that prompted the establishment of this course in Experiential Business Applications.