Offering a globally-linked international accounting course in real time: a sharing of experiences and lessons learned |
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Authors: | Sharon Lightner Carol Olson Houston |
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Affiliation: | School of Accountancy, College of Business Administration, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-8221, USA |
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Abstract: | This article reports the experiences from offering an online international accounting course that involved students from Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the USA participating in real time via both audio and video links. In addition to interacting among themselves, students also interacted with accounting practitioners and standard setters from these countries. The latter attended class either in person or “virtually” via audio and video links. The paper also discusses the major benefits from the course, as identified by student feedback and direct faculty observations. A number of challenges in offering a course of this type also are identified. These insights can assist accounting educators interested in implementing a similar international accounting course at their institutions. They also have implications for applying distance-learning approaches in courses with a domestic focus. |
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Keywords: | International accounting Distance learning Accounting standard setting |
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