Just-In-Time Teaching: Balancing the Competing Demands of Corporate America and Academe in the Delivery of Management Education

• Published in: Journal of management education Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 763 - 778
• Main Authors: Watson, Carol, Temkin, Sanford
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.12.2000; Sage; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Action learning; Business community; Business education; Business schools; Core curriculum; Course Content; Curricula; Curriculum subjects: programmes and methods; Educational Needs; Educational sciences; Empowerment; Experiential Learning; Leadership; Learning; Lifelong Learning; Management theory; Management training; Skills; Students; Teaching; Teaching methods; USA; New York; United States > US; Higher Education; Labour Market; Commercial Education; Teaching method; Training program; Management; Employment-Training Relation
• ISSN: 1052-5629; 1552-6658
• DOI: 10.1177/105256290002400608

Just-In-Time Teaching balances the competing demands of the corporate world for practical skill training with those of academe for theoretical rigor by combining rapid delivery and action-learning techniques in a project-based course. The projects, immediate problems faced by business clients, help determine which aspects of course content are taught. Students’ needs for training to solve the client’s problem also help determine what content is delivered and when. Professors maintain control by deciding on course content and selecting appropriate projects. Guidelines, descriptions, pros, and cons are presented. Implications for improving management education are drawn.