[AISWorld] Call for Papers: Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education

[Vijay Kannan]

Call for Papers:

Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education: Special Issue on 'Developing Executive Education Programs with Online Distance Education<http://www.dsjie.org/Portals/0/Users/Vijay/Content/2017%20Call%20for%20Papers.pdf>'

Guest Editors: Marc J. Schniederjans, Dennis Lanham, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Stephen LeGrand, Valmont Industries, Inc.


Motivation and Background

Executive education (EE) involves a highly specialized and often customized form of education that focuses on narrow topics that client organizations seek to learn or to upgrade existing knowledge.  Business schools have been active in developing EE programs to support specific client needs, due in part to the benefits of investing in EE programs.  Some of the benefits include the generation of revenue streams, enhanced reputation, an exchange of technologies between businesses and business schools, employment opportunities for students, and the promotion of goodwill between business schools and local communities through support of local business organizations.

Executive education almost always involves face-to-face, intensive course content and delivery.  EE programs are often taught in day long sessions conducted over weekend retreats or meetings of a week or two in length.  In sharp contrast to the EE approach, online distance education is conducted over distances with little or no face-to-face instruction.  Yet online distance education has exposed many universities to a plethora of advantages over traditional faculty-to-student or face-to-face education.  With the development of online education in the last two decades, most business schools have developed excellent distance learning capabilities that can transfer to EE programs.  What is lacking is research-based literature that explains how the combination of EE programs and online distance education approaches can be used to augment face-to-face EE programs for the convenience of clients.

To overcome this gap in the literature and to help business schools learn more about EE programs utilizing online approaches, this special issue focuses on EE programs and their use of online educational approaches.  It seeks both empirical and analytical papers that seek to advance EE and online education.  The issue seeks papers pertinent both to schools that do not currently have EE programs and those interested in adding online elements to existing programs. Topics in the first category include but are not limited to


*         Best practices for creating an EE program and new course design (content, structure, infrastructure)

*         Faculty resource training and motivation

*         Analytical papers related to costs and benefits of EE programs

*         Development and applications of simulation methods used in EE training
and those in the second category include but are not limited to


*         Best practices on integrating EE courses with online approaches

*         Best practices on EE and online course design

*         Conceptual and analytic papers on evaluation and measurement of EE and online programs

*         Development and applications of online simulation methods used in EE and online courses


Submission Deadline June 15, 2016

DSJIE is a peer reviewed publication of the Decision Sciences Institute. Its mission is to publish significant research relevant to teaching, learning, and education in the decision sciences - quantitative and behavioral approaches to managerial decision making. For more details visit www.dsjie.org<http://www.dsjie.org>.


Vijay R. Kannan, Ph.D.
Editor, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education<http://www.dsjie.org/>
email: dsjie.editor at gmail.com<mailto:dsjie.editor at gmail.com>