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Title:
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Promoting EDI Adoption Through Education: Enhancing the Effectiveness of an EDI Business Simulation Game.
Principal Supervisor:
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Craig Parker,
Department of Information Systems, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Associate Supervisor:
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Associate Professor Paula Swatman, Department of Information Systems, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Project Description:
The TREAT (Teaching Realistic EDI and Telecommunications) Laboratory is designed to teach SMEs owner/manager by allowing them to experiment with and see first-hand what this technology can do for their company. TREAT is a teaching tool which requires a laboratory coordinator to perform such roles as promoting discussions between participants concerning EDI and explaining how the simulation game is played. Additionally, the coordinator must also operate such service facilities such as a bank, warehouse and freight forwarder. The coordinator therefore spends a lot of time operating these facilities rather than focusing on the role of a facilitator and an educator.
A Laboratory Management System (LMS) therefore appears to be required to automate the service facilities for the laboratory facilitator. What is not certain, however, is whether the LMS will allow the coordinator to concentrate on facilitation and education - and thus improve on TREAT's ability to promote a proactive attitude toward EDI amongst SME owner/managers taking part in the programme.
More specifically, the following research question needs to be answered in the context of my Honours research project:
Will a Laboratory Management System which automates the operation of the service facilities comprising the TREAT business simulation allow the coordinator of this environment to concentrate on teaching participants about EDI?
Last Updated: 5th April 1997