Reframing Neurodiversity as Competitive Advantage: Opportunities, Challenges, and Resources for Business and Professional Communication Educators

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-284
Author(s):  
Lorelei A. Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Diverse Students ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Talented Students ◽  
The Ideal

This article outlines opportunities and challenges of teaching neurologically diverse students in the business communication course, providing basic resources and information for instructors to supplement their knowledge and pedagogical ability to support neurodiverse students. While the business communication course may represent obstacles for neurodiverse students, it also provides the ideal opportunity for them to practice and develop the soft skills that are essential to their success. Included are implications for neurodiversity as competitive advantage as employers look to harness the unique talents of neurodivergent graduates through active recruitment programs and universities increase programming to support these diverse and talented students.

scholarly journals Harry Potter and the First Order of Business: Using Simulation to Teach Social Justice and Disability Ethics in Business Communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie K. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Business Writing ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Excellent Work ◽  
Communication Pedagogy

Despite the excellent work by scholars who invite us to consider disability, social justice, and business and professional communication pedagogy, little attention has been given to what a disability- and social-justice-centered business and professional communication course might look like in design and implementation. This case study offers an example of a simulation based within the Harry Potter universe that emphasizes the ways disability advocacy and civic engagement manifest themselves in foundational business writing theories and practices. This simulation enabled students to engage with social justice issues by understanding access as an essential part of business and professional communication.

Gamification in the Business Communication Course

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Veltsos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
The Past ◽  
Game Elements

Interest in gamification in higher education has been growing steadily in the past decade. Using games and game elements has been shown to increase student engagement, motivation, and autonomy. This article draws parallels between game elements, instructional design, and the teaching of business and professional communication. It suggests ways that teachers can incorporate game elements into their courses (or perhaps identifies ways in which readers are already doing so without realizing it). The article concludes with an example of how game elements are used in the design of an introductory business communication course.

PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED TEACHING AS A FACTOR OF MOTIVATION TO LEARNING ENGLISH IN NON-LINGUISTIC HIGH SCHOOLS (FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF DIFFERENT DIDACTIVE METHODS USING ON ENGI NEERING FACULTY)

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Active Teaching ◽  
English Classes ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
Oriented Approach

This article is devoted to the features and benefits of a professionally-oriented approach to teaching a foreign language in non-linguistic high schools on the example of engineering education. According to the latest standards of higher education (FSES 3++), students must have sufficient knowledge of a foreign language for business communication in oral and written forms. However, teachers of high schools face a number of difficulties in the formation of a foreign language communicative competence offuture engineers, namely: a constant decrease of a number offoreign language practical classes in a curriculum of a high school and a weak motivation of students. In our opinion, a professionally-oriented approach to teaching helps to solve these problems and make the process of learning a foreign language more intensive, focused and effective. That is, now, the development of strategies, methodological models and tools for teaching English, with a focus on professional communication, is an actual task for an English teacher at the University. This article presents some methods and techniques that stimulate students of engineering faculty to professionally oriented communication in English. Much attention is paid to both active teaching methods used during practical English classes, and individual work, which allows students to get more useful information and skills within the practical classes given, and also allows students to develop the need for individual knowledge acquisition and comprehension, thereby providing the increased interest of communication in a foreign language and increasing motivation to learn a foreign language.

Multimedia as a Teaching Tool in Business Communication Course Delivery

1997 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Liu ◽  
Linda Beamer
Keyword(s):  
Software Design ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Course Delivery ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Multimedia Software ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
Design Program ◽  
Time Required

The two authors created a multimedia intercultural business communication program. Multimedia is an effective instructional tool because of its ability to capture the attention of the learner and offer interactivity so the learner con trols the learning process. An appeal is made to the learner's imagination. Two constraints are the computer requirements to operate it and the length of time required to learn a multimedia software design program. The course content is described and the seven steps in developing the multimedia hypertext are detailed. The authors recommend the process with advice about what charac teristics the authors of multimedia programs need to develop.

Teaching Large Sections of a Business Communication Course

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-129
Author(s):  
Carol Wright
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Large Sections ◽  
Large Face

The purpose of this research is to examine specific examples of how business communication courses are delivered in large, face-to-face university classes to discover implications of these large courses. This case study reviewed four classes from two different midsized universities whose classes range from 48 to 300 students. Findings suggest that, when faced with the possibility of teaching more students, it is important to understand that pedagogical strategies may need to be adjusted to maintain student learning. These strategies include modifying the course to the lecture/lab structure, limiting the amount of writing, or allowing the instructor to teach fewer courses.

scholarly journals Psychology of Business, Leadership and Communication as a Perspective Scientific Direction in Ukraine and Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S) ◽  
pp. 98-102
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Business Leadership ◽  
Business And Management

The article deals with highlighting the relevance of the new direction of psychology of business, leadership and communication for the modern labor market. The emphasis has been placed on the fact that the modernization of educational programs promotes Europeanization and improvement of the quality of training so that specialists can operate in intercultural professional environment, and the quality of scientific research leads to constant search in order to ensure the competitiveness of graduates, spread of values and formation of a positive image of the country. The work presents the educational program “Psychology of Business and Management” for the training of specialists in the psychology of interpersonal and business communication, business counseling, psychological assessment of the staff, personnel management, legal support, organizational behavior and applied ethics, prevention of professional deformations, gender differences in the field of management activities; media psychology, psychology of advertising and public relations (PR) etc. Methods for successful formation and development of students’ personal and professional skills (soft skills) demanded by employers in order to provide their preparedness for being employed by business organizations have been offered; the general socio-psychological basics of success in business have been outlined. A system of values needed for leadership and success has been presented. The concepts of “success” and “successfulness” in the business environment have been considered.

scholarly journals Professional communication in a foreign language: designing a practical workshop for bachelors

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-296
Author(s):  
Natalia Vladimirovna Malova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Specialist Training ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Higher Professional Education ◽  
The University

The following paper discusses the actual task of modern technical specialist training: getting him/her ready to communicate professionally in a foreign language. Practice requests are naturally reflected in the development of curricula and programs of higher professional education. The author demonstrates the urgency of the task in connection with the constantly changing foreign language professional communication, especially computer-mediated part of it. The author identifies two main approaches to the organization of studies at the university: changing the structure, content, methods of the course Foreign Language and the development of new courses of the curriculum. Within the framework of the second approach, the process of designing an educational and methodical complex for a professional communication course on the basis of a process approach is considered in some detail. The paper emphasizes the importance of using professional skills of prospective specialists to increase the effectiveness of the educational process, in particular, the development of copyright audio and video materials. The workshop for audio engineers, developed by the author of the paper, is successfully used in the educational process of Samara State Institute of Culture.

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