Writing Apprehension in the Online Classroom: The Limits of Instructor Behaviors

In response to COVID-19, educational stakeholders are transferring traditional, face-to-face instruction to the online learning environment. The purpose of this study was to determine if business instructors’ use of immediate behaviors and clarity, which have been found to help business students overcome their writing apprehension in the face-to-face learning environment, can also be used to help business students to overcome their writing apprehension in an online learning environment. Findings indicated that instructor immediate behaviors and clarity are not interventions for writing apprehension in the online learning environment. The instructional strategies business instructors rely on in the face-to-face classroom did not have the same meaning or effect on the online classroom.

Follow The Cash: Lessons For Capstone Business Courses

Capstone business students struggle to understand and interrelate all of the strategies and functions of companies. Yet each of those strategies and functions has the purpose of directly or indirectly producing cash flows for the company. We therefore propose that following a companys cash flows can provide effective lessons for capstone business courses. In this exploratory paper, we examine the importance of cash from three perspectives: the companys, the investors, and the accountants. We then examine how emerging accounting movements make following cash flows easier for non-accountants and how capstone business instructors might infuse some follow-the-cash lessons into their classrooms.