James Theroux

James Theroux
University of Massachusetts Amherst | UMass Amherst · Department of Management

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A new type of case study, called the real-time case (RTC), was produced in the fall of 2001 and distributed via the Internet to business classes at four universities in the U.S. and Canada. The real-time case presented the story of one company's growth and development throughout a 14-week semester. A case writer stationed full-time at the subject c...
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The case method can be classified as a type of experiential learning because students treat the problem in the case as if it were real and immediate. Until the Internet there was no practical way for cases to actually be real and immediate. The Internet makes possible instantaneous distribution of cases, and it makes possible their creation in real...
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In 2005, M. Hopkins and J. Theroux implemented the second example of an experimental case study, at 11 business schools in the United States and Canada. The new type of case study, named the real-time case (RTC) study, uses the Internet to bring business reality to business courses and to facilitate communication among faculty, students, and the ca...
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This article describes the first implementation of the Real-time Case Method (RTCM)—a new instructional practice that makes use of various technologies to create a new type of case study. Data obtained from five instructors at four business schools in the U.S. and Canada were analyzed using analytic induction. Analysis suggests RTCM was successfull...
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In this article, the authors report on a new type of case study, called real-time case method (RTCM), which was produced and taught at four business schools. This new method of developing cases was applied in a course on entrepreneurship. The authors describe it and evaluate its effectiveness. RTCM was conducted over the course of one university se...
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Describes two mass media educational programs in Ecuador which utilize radio as an instructional medium. One stresses professionalized communication and has adapted American commercial advertising methods. The other stresses participatory communication and has extended the community development methods of the rural Latin American parish priest. (Au...
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