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Transforming the Accounting Education Value Chain with E-Learning Technologies
Noah P. Barsky,
Villanova University
Anthony H. Catanach Jr., Villanova University
C. Andrew Lafond, Philadelphia University
ABSTRACT. Today’s colleges and universities face a variety of challenges in meeting student needs, as well as the heightened expectations of their other stakeholders. Increased operating costs, rising tuition, greater competition, and rigorous accreditation standards are forcing institutions to make their educational processes more effective and efficient. E-learning platforms (e.g., Blackboard/WebCT, eCollege, and ANGEL) offer potential solutions to these 21st Century operational dilemmas. This paper introduces accounting educators to the educational value chain: the set of inter-related activities or processes used by educational institutions to deliver services to their stakeholders. The paper shows how E-learning platforms can be easily, effectively and efficiently integrated into the accounting classroom, provides guidance on how to create unique electronic self-grading exams, and how an electronic and paperless course can help faculty with accreditation and assessment initiatives.
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