CORAL Seminar: Foteini Stavropoulou, Liverpool John Moores University

Speakers: Foteini Stavropoulou, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Title: Operations Management Curriculum Development under uncertain situations: Lessons learned from the pandemic

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major disruption to higher education as face-to-face teaching had to shift to distance teaching overnight. In this session, we describe the adaptation of an Operations Management undergraduate compulsory module, taught to first-year students, from face-to-face delivery to emergency online delivery. In our online version, we used a mix of traditional and flipped classroom techniques. We adopted a “live” online lecture, where students were encouraged to interact with their instructors and ask questions, and flipped live online tutorials, where students and instructors discussed case studies. In addition, we used a web-based simulation game as a learning and assessment tool. After the simulation game was complete, we assessed our students using a reflective group presentation regarding the decisions they made throughout the game. Based on student feedback, the curriculum design and the module adaptations that we adopted for its emergency online delivery can be considered successful. In particular, students were satisfied with the module quality and structure. Following our experience from adapting our face-to-face module for emergency online delivery, we provide a framework for switching to emergency online teaching along with some useful insights and recommendations to operations management educators.

Link to published paper: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/ited.2022.0074

Speaker bio: Foteini Stavropoulou | Liverpool John Moores University (ljmu.ac.uk)

Coordinators: Sanne Wøhlk and Marcel Turkensteen