Learning Theory Applied in Management Education: A Case History

Abstract

Examples of deliberate attempts to apply learning theory in the design of management education are rare—largely because, as the words imply, learning theory is concerned with learning rather than with teaching, and consequently not always of apparent help to the educator. This article describes an attempt to apply a relatively unfashionable stimulus‐response model to the task of overcoming differences in numeracy level on a large postgraduate programme. The approach has now been in use for four years in succession and over the last two years has been adopted by a second business school as well. But this apparent success has not been without its problems…

Citation

Ratiu, I. (1977), "Learning Theory Applied in Management Education: A Case History", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 7-11. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014138