This is a website dedicated to giving general help to companies who wish to run their businesses in international markets. This material is focused on making international business successful, by way of teaching workshops and offering a myriad of services designed to help boost global business success. The site offers free resources, but the main focus is a series of training available by contacting the company.
Type of Material:
Learning Object Repository
Recommended Uses:
There are resources/links available that are useful for students and faculty, but mostly the site is driven toward self-paced and team (company focused) training available.
This site can also be informative for anyone interested in international trade, entrepreneurship, and students interested in careers in international business.
Technical Requirements:
Java 8 (v101), Adobe flash 24, and Mozilla 50.0 were used in this review.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The purpose of this website is to provide services designed to help boost global business success.
Target Student Population:
Business students/leaders, potentially useful for political science students. The material would be helpful for upper level undergraduate and masters level business students primarily.
The material is also beneficial for anyone in this professional area looking for additional knowledge and training.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Knowledge and ability to access the Internet, general international trade, and business management.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Material has content that is relevant to international business trade.
Resources have multiple uses within a global business environment.
Contains valuable articles that are useful for understanding the international business trade.
Newsletter archives are linked to the actual resources.
ross section of various cultural and international business considerations.
Concerns:
Information is static and could use more multimedia context.
The various links to the features of the website are not intuitive and easy to use.
Could use a blog page for communicating with users.
The main focus of the site is the trainings offered. As such, finding material to use for 'research' or homework is less direct.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Resources are relevant and applicable for studying international business or global leadership.
Has a list of webinars useful for teaching international business topics.
List of services linked to website learning materials.
The resources available for faculty and/or self-guided learning are quite numerous.
Concerns:
Could use a table of contents with links to the topics discussed.
While the website describes the company and its purpose, it does not provide clear learning objective for the website. The main focus of the site is to offer training information for groups
There is no outline available suitable for use in a classroom for teaching international business management.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Website has the ability to connect with Facebook, Linkedin, and Google.
Website Fonts and colors are visually appealing and make it pleasant to read content.
Website has a search bar for locating content within the web pages.
The resources tab is a good feature to locate content within the webpages.
Concerns:
Website page only displays 2/3 of the website.
Website could use more multimedia content such as links to Youtube videos on international business relevant to its content.
Website was slow to load on Firefox.
Because the site supports the services of the company, it may take a little time to access the reference material.
Other Issues and Comments:
N/A
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