Fink, L. D. (2013). Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons. 352 pp. $40.00 (paperback).ByL. D. Fink (2013)Dee Fink has been advocating learner- and learning-centered approaches to teaching since the 1970s. This revised and updated version of his classic book continues that tradition with its focus on what educators must do to foster learning that will enhance individual lives and foster informed and thoughtful citizens. Fink's central idea is that education will not improve until educators step down from the lecture podium to walk with and among their learners, to collaborate in designing learning experiences. He argues that the most effective way for individuals to do this is by developing instructional design skills grounded in active and experiential learning theories and methods. On one level, Fink targets individual educators from all disciplines who desire to make a significant change to their teaching practice, and on another level, he relates to groups interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), professional development and instructional design. Fink's scholarship and insight make this an excellent resource on both levels.Fink organized his book into seven chapters. The first two focus on the need for change in postsecondary education. He then defines "significant learning experiences" and introduces his taxonomy as a means to provide grounded theories and concepts for action. Chapters 3 and 4 puts his taxonomy to use with practical language that details integrated course design concepts and tools. Chapter 5 provides a case study as well as other examples from educators who improved their practice by using Fink's taxonomy and course design model. Chapter 6 explores what front-line educators need to make significant learning experiences the new norm. Fink ends this book with a conversation about what education could become if the idea of "significant learning experiences" became the goal.Fink defines significant learning experiences as those that result in something truly significant in the learner's life. For this to happen, learning experiences must go beyond fostering understanding and the ability to remodel discipline- related information, they must connect the course content with the learner's life in such a way that the learner will draw upon past experiences to connect the content with new ideas and new future learning. Teaching is broken into four components: subject matter knowledge, design of instruction, student interactions and managing course event. Fink makes the case that designing instruction is the weakest link for post-secondary educators; this is where the majority have no conceptual tools - it has not been part of their background or training. …

Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses

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The objective of this paper is to gain a better understanding of factors influencing software piracy. A model explaining the contribution of different factors to software piracy intention and its subsequent effect on actual software piracy is constructed based on established theories of human behavior. The model is then tested empirically in a longitudinal study with a survey. Findings show that social factors and beliefs concerning consequences of software piracy have significant effects on software piracy intentions. The data also show that while habits and facilitating conditions were significantly related to actual piracy behavior, intentions did not necessarily lead to the actual act of software piracy. The implications of the findings to research and practice are discussed.

Factors motivating software piracy: a longitudinal study

Purpose – Illegal downloading of music has become an inexorable and rampant activity particularly among college students who have been little deterred by industry legal actions. The purpose of this research is to examine the present state of downloading and how ethical orientation and attitudes towards MP3 piracy impact such activities. The paper also aims to use ethical scenarios as a way of understanding the ethical reasoning in illegal downloading.Design/methodology/approach – Key research questions are proposed that are related to illegal downloading. A sample of 364 university students was used to examine each research question. Statistical results are reported.Findings – The results clearly show that downloading continues at a high rate today driven by a strong belief that it is not ethically wrong. Ethical orientation was found to be positively associated with awareness of the social cost of downloading, consequences of downloading, and ethical belief in downloading. Ethical scenarios show that eth...

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Digital piracy of MP3s: consumer and ethical predispositions

Software piracy, an unethical and illegal behavior, is pervading today's society. In a few recent studies, some scholars have argued that to decrease software piracy, it is more important to raise the level of moral intensity regarding software piracy than establishing a reward - punishment structure for following institutional compliance. In this study, authors developed a survey questionnaire and administered to about 800 undergraduate and graduate business students from two Midwestern state universities, to study the relationship between the level of moral intensity and eleven demographic variables. The results obtained were mixed. The most interesting results that were obtained are that moral intensity of software piracy is not affected by the use of computer, experience with computers or task orientation. The propensity toward moral intensity is affected by general demographic variables.

An Empirical Study of Software Piracy and Moral Intensity among University Students

Developing a framework to improve retail category management through category captain arrangements

Manufacturers and retailers have divergent profit objectives A manufacturer wants to maximize the profits of its own brands The retailer, on the other hand, wants to maximize the profit of the entire product category In spite of these apparently diverging profit objectives, both manufacturers and retailers are increasingly realizing that profit margins of both can be increased through cooperation rather than confrontation Category management is one such cooperative strategy that often involves the appointment of a leading manufacturer as the “category captain” A category captain advises the retailer on the best way to price, display, and promote products in a category, including those of the competitors This arrangement, therefore, ensures retail efficiency but raises doubt about possible misuse of power by the category captain to circumvent fair competition In this paper, we outline the antitrust concerns about this arrangement, and provide a framework that effectively addresses these concerns

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Developing a Framework to Improve Retail Category Management Through Category Captain Arrangements

Package downsizing is a practice where the package content is reduced without changing the package or the price of the product. In a market that is defined by ‘hyper-competition,’ package downsizing is often practiced by marketers to effect an invisible price increase for their products. Although marketers may maintain that providing, the legally required, quantity indication on the package is adequate for customers to make logical and informed choices, research indicates that consumers often do not consult quantity indications on packages but use alternative methods (e.g., visual impressions of the package size, total package price, or previous purchase experience) to judge product quantity and to calculate product value. As a subtle means, package downsizing therefore has the potential to mislead customers in the buying process due to an unfavorable balance of information within the dyad. This could give rise to serious moral and ethical consideration. In this paper, we examined various issues related to package downsizing, such as why sellers resort to this type of practice, consumer vulnerability to package downsizing, as well as the extent of protection offered to consumers by the existing laws and regulations with respect to product packaging. Finally, we examined the ethics of package downsizing using the existing legal, moral, and professional ethical standards as well as the principle of equivalence. Our analysis indicates that package downsizing, as it is practiced by the marketers and sellers today, is unethical as far as the consumers are concerned.

Package downsizing: is it ethical?

Given the ubiquitous utilization of teams in U.S. workplaces, collegiate schools of business have responded by placing great emphasis on the assessment and development of teamwork skills. Employing a methodology first proposed by Hobson and Kesic (2002) for use in managerial training, this study involved the behavioral assessment of teamwork skills in a sample of 247 undergraduate business students. The evaluation tool consisted of 15 positive and 10 negative teamwork behaviors. A leaderless group discussion exercise was utilized with 5-person teams, working together to solve a problem in a 20- minute period. Team interaction was videotaped and analyzed to produce ratings (on a 0-4 scale, from never to always) for each student on the 15 positive behaviors, 10 negative behaviors, as well as an overall score (the sum of the 15 positive behaviors minus the sum of the 10 negatives). Data analysis provided means for all 25 individual items on the teamwork assessment tool and norms for overall teamwork scores. A full factorial ANOVA indicated essentially no demographic differences in overall scores as a function of sex, age, race/ethnicity, or major. Potential uses of this assessment methodology in teaching, student coaching, and accreditation are discussed.

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Field Testing a Behavioral Teamwork Assessment Tool with US Undergraduate Business Students

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