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- Title
Using Contests to Provide Business Students Project-Based Learning in Humanitarian Logistics: PSAid Example.
- Authors
Özpolat, Koray; Chen, Yuwen; Hales, Doug; Yu, Degan; Yalcin, Mehmet G.
- Abstract
ABSTRACT Business students appreciate working on classroom projects that are both enjoyable and useful in preparing them for future careers. Promoting competition among project teams is also used as a method to motivate students. The Humanitarian Logistics Project (HLP) teaches undergraduate students the logistical implications of unsolicited material donations in disaster relief. To encourage competition, students are organized into teams of three and tasked with designing humanitarian public service announcements (PSAs) that improve their understanding of humanitarian issues in the general public. These announcements are then submitted to the national PSAid (Public Service Announcements for International Disasters) contest for American college students. The exercise is rigorous because it requires students to collect logistical data and use it to communicate the principle of smart compassion to the public in a creative fashion. Moreover, not only do students learn about topics related to humanitarian logistics by competing with other college students nation-wide, but also do they make a socially responsible contribution to the public. Analysis of survey data shows that students' learning outcomes from the HLP are significantly greater than those for other supply chain topics covered in class, and that student satisfaction with the HLP is high.
- Subjects
PHILANTHROPISTS; CIVIL service; CLASSROOMS; UNDERGRADUATES; PUBLIC service advertising
- Publication
Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2014, Vol 12, Issue 4, p269
- ISSN
1540-4595
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/dsji.12044