Teaching with enterprise systems: A three phased roadmap

Abstract

Educators still face challenges using enterprise systems as a teaching tool despite many universities having approached vendors for resources to enrich their curriculum. Previously, there is relatively little guidance given to educators on how to incorporate enterprise systems into the curriculum. This article describes a three phased − negotiation, knowledge and evaluation − roadmap for teaching with enterprise systems. A roadmap is important to guide educators in addressing the issues associated with the using of enterprise systems in curriculum. Furthermore, the roadmap describes a learn-by-doing approach, to provide a balance of business process and enterprise systems software specific knowledge for students; that the majority of firms seek. Following the roadmap creates the potential for joint creation of teaching and learning value between constituents in a wider eco-system, comprising of educators, vendors, faculties and students.