Teaching International Business in “Mega”-Classes: Active Learning and Team Building

Abstract

The paper presents the authors’ more than 30-year insights of teaching both the graduate and undergraduate International Business (IB) class, in an interactive and team-building way, primarily in self-administered classes “mega” classes. This has been a cost-effective solution for the institutions which undertook the “risk” of allowing classes ranging from 40 to 320 students but also a highly rewarding and a cutting-edge learning experience for the instructor. The paper is comprised of three parts: The IB theory issues that affected the evolution of this course; main historical milestones of the class development and objectives; “how-to-do” propositions.