Several scholars have indicated that the course of POM should teach students manufacturing technology and its role in developing business strategy. However, POM represents a departure from traditional business courses due to its heavy technical content. Many students in the college of business resist the POM course. First, most students who choose business careers think they are not interested in manufacturing. This situation becomes worse when instructors explain these concepts without using overhead projectors, transparencies, video demos, or other visual aids in the classroom.
Some students also have difficulty with quantitative models and analysis.
These students complain that they seem to understand a problem in the classroom, but they do not know how to work a similar one in the examination. Multimedia refers to the use of diverse electronic tools, such as videotape, videodiscs, and CD-ROMs in presenting information in the form of images, videos, text, graphics, and sound. The DMTS, funded by a university research grant, is a multimedia system that combines text, graphics, audio, and video with the interaction of a computer in a network environment. The DMTS has been designed, developed, and implemented by the author and student assistants since 1993. IPS includes a course outline and terminology explanation.