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Introductory accounting courses are generally taught to undergraduate business majors as part of the required basic business core. Many of the students are non-accounting majors and may lack the motivation to study accounting. Most have little work experience and may also lack a frame of reference for the concepts taught in class. While these demographics have made accounting education challenging in the past, meeting the educational needs of the current generation of students, Gen Y students, is proving to be even more of a challenge. Gen Y students grew up with computers, the Internet, beepers, cell phones, MTV, and a proliferation of computer games. Learning styles of this generation are more active and visual than verbal, causing traditional teaching methods to be less effective. Fo...
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Two questions that plague trainers are, "When should I involve my audience?" and "What kinds of activities might they be ready to engage in?" Those of us who are out there in the trenches, either teaching face to face or in a teleconference environment know that the more we engage our audience, the more they learn. As trainers, we also know that groups grow and mature in a predictable manner. Having to face a different group each time we train, we've learned ways to facilitate this growth. Often, our groups meet for much shorter periods of time than the average management team. Our job, therefore, is to expedite the team development process to make audience engagement happen. Being very content driven, we often forget the importance of that most fundamental principle of adult leaning-we...
