Web-TRECS: Teaching Electronic Commerce

Authors:
Craig M. Parker;Paula M. C. Swatman
Affiliations:
School of Management Information Systems, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia cparker@deakin.edu.au;Institute for Management, University of Koblenz-Landau, Rheinau 1, 56075 Koblenz, Germany paula.swatman@uni-koblenz.de
Venue:
Information Technology and Management
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Effective Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce) education for students in such disciplines as Management Information Systems, Accounting and Marketing is paramount. This is because organisations globally need people who are skilled in e-Commerce, from a technical and/or organisational perspective, so that the firms can take advantage of such technologies as the Web. The challenge for business and e-Commerce educators, therefore, is the development of teaching tools and environments which provide tertiary students and business people with practically-based opportunities for learning about the potential of e-Commerce. Business simulation approaches to e-Commerce education are a particularly effective way in which to provide students with these pedagogic opportunities. This paper provides an overview of a Web-based e-Commerce business simulation called Web-TRECS (Teaching Realistic Electronic Commerce Solutions). It then describes how the software components of Web-TRECS have been designed to form the e-Commerce teaching tool. The paper then discusses how Web-TRECS could be used to teach a range of e-Commerce concepts and skills, based on six years of research into the use of e-Commerce business simulations. The paper finally concludes by outlining our future research plans to extend Web-TRECS so that additional e-Commerce concepts and skills might be taught using this tool.