Students across the College need to build a sound technology foundation as early as possible to get ready for more advanced classes and eventually for the marketplace. A group of Accounting and Information Management professors are developing a tool that will help. Professor Julie Smith David, in concert with Dr. Philip Reckers and Harriet Maccracken, is creating software that will introduce sophomore students to the basics about business processes, supply chains, accounting and databases. The software uses newly developed tools from J.D. Edwards, which supports the project and has agreed to host the software on its web site while it is being tested. The book selling business is used as an example.
Students work their way through the tutorial, taking quizzes when they are ready.
A preliminary version is being tested in the Honors section of Accounting 330 this semester. Plans are to roll it out to the approximately 1,000 students in Accounting 230 in the spring. Ten other universities, including the University of Illinois, Florida State and Iowa State, will be joining a test of the software at that time.