Committee Chair
Albie Brooks (albieb@unimelb.edu.au)

Background:
The Instructional Resources Committee of the MAS was constituted by 2001-02 MAS President, Mike Shields, to make recommendations for enhancing the amount and quality of educational materials available to Section members and to encourage greater participation on the part of Section members in education-related activities of the AAA. Education-related materials available currently through the section's website can be found clicking on the link on the menu for "Instructional Resources." This material will serve as the starting point for the work of the MAS Instructional Resources (IR) Committee.

Committee Charge:

• The IR Committee will work with the MAS Website Coordinator, Andrea Drake, to provide, through the section's website, member access to relevant educational resources, such as those contained in the IR Committee Report delivered to the MAS Executive Committee at the 2002 Mid-Year Meeting. That Report contained a comprehensive, multi-year plan that included the following educational resources for MAS members:
  1. Up-to-date (and cumulative) lists (and if possible, abstracts) of relevant educational manuscripts and cases published recently in the major accounting education journals (viz., the Journal of Accounting Education, Issues in Accounting Education, Advances in Accounting Education, Accounting Education: An International Journal, and the Journal of Accounting Case Research)
  2. Educationally relevant international management accounting materials
  3. Innovative management accounting educational materials identified through submissions to the AAA and the Management Accounting Section "teaching innovation award" competitions
  4. Information regarding funding available for course/curriculum development (e.g., IMA) and information regarding relevant education-related awards
  5. Links on the Section's website to various education websites (e.g., U.S. Department of Education, ERIC, American Association of Higher Education) as well as the education-related web pages of allied professional organizations (e.g., American Economics Association, Academy of Management, American Finance Association, Financial Management Association)
  6. Relevant course syllabi, both undergraduate and graduate
  7. Relevant educational materials presented to participants at special meetings, such as the New Faculty Consortium, the annual meeting of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy (FSA), and Deloitte and Touche's annual "Enhancing the Learning Experience" seminar
  8. Relevant educational case materials produced by organizations such as the IMA, the AICPA, and other outlets, such as the University of Virginia's Darden Case Collection Series.
  9. Materials that can be used to guide faculty course/curriculum innovation efforts (design, implementation, and assessment dimensions of course/curriculum innovation); such resources will be both business/accounting specific and general in nature.
  10. Listing (including abstracts) of cost/ management accounting related education papers presented at recent AAA meetings (national and regional)
  The Instructional Resources Committee intends to accomplish this set of tasks over a multi-year period. For 2002, the plan is to accomplish items 1 (Abstracts of Relevant Accounting Education Articles) and 8 (Case Materials Available to MAS Section Members). The remaining tasks will be accomplished over a two-year period (2003 and 2004). Individuals interested in serving on the MAS IR Committee should contact either of the Committee co-chairs.


• The IR Committee will periodically provide, or direct others to provide, to the section's Website Coordinator information to update the Section's "educational resources" area within its website.


• The IR Committee will provide to the MAS Executive Committee at each mid-year meeting a progress report regarding implementation activities and the status of the "educational resources" section of the MAS web page.


• The IR Committee will monitor the workload of the Committee and, with the advice and consent of the President of the MAS, add necessary committee members, to accomplish the Committee's goals.


• The IR Committee will provide relevant information (regarding the Instructional Resources section of the web page) for inclusion in each issue of the MAS Newsletter (i.e. for the Spring and Fall issues).