Article ID: | iaor201113298 |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 235 |
End Page Number: | 253 |
Publication Date: | May 2011 |
Journal: | Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education |
Authors: | Simpson Natalie C, Hancock Philip G |
Keywords: | collaboration systems, operations management |
This article chronicles the coordination and better integration of existing
institutional resources to support cocurricular themes embedded in the provision
of a large enrollment, video-mediated undergraduate operations management (OM)
course. The name Project Cheddarfield refers to a 2008 initiative in which two
professors team-taught an OM course to over 600 undergraduates on two different
continents through the repeated rapid exchange of digital video between the
United States and Singapore. Simultaneously infused in this core curricular
delivery were themes of global awareness and study abroad, including the
promotion of one particular opportunity that bridged the two campuses. This
action research narrative spans over 5 years of related activity leading up to
the initiative, as this project is best understood as a