Going Back

January 20, 2009 at 3:34 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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Near the end of December, I was contacted by ABAC again about returning again to Thailand to teach in the summer of 2009.  I was not willing to spend the entire summer again in Thailand as I needed time in the US to work on research and projects over here.  ABAC was willing to accomodate as they have invited me to teach two accelerated, one month long MBA MIS courses during the month of June.  In addition, they also offered my wife the chance to teach a MBA Brand Management course during the month of June.  We accepted the offer on January 20.  The classes will be taught at ABAC City Campus, which is located in the central business district in Bangkok.  This offer is similar to the offer I had last year in that ABAC will reimburse my airfare, will provide accomodations nearby the campus, and will pay a stipend for each class I teach.  I have not been to the City Campus before, so there should be a lot of discovery again this summer.  I will provide more updates about my return and possibilities for advancing international partnership and my research as the summer approaches.

An Invitation

January 20, 2009 at 1:51 pm | In Thailand | Leave a Comment
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I was recently contacted by Assumption University (ABAC) to “act as a coordinator and develop the written comprehensive examination on the General Management- Management Information System (MIS) course”.  Students in the MBA program at ABAC have the option of completing a thesis project or taking a comprehensive exam.  I was being asked to write the MIS portion of the comprehensive exam, which would be derived from the MBA-MIS courses I taught last summer in Thailand.

At first I was confused why ABAC wanted me to complete this role as (per the invitation letter) I needed to be physically present to administer and grade the exam.  After a few e-mail exchanges, however, it was clear that I could fill this role at a distance.  I was welcome to this opportunity as I viewed this as another means to strengthen the international partnership ties between JSU and ABAC.

So what did I need to do?  The first items that ABAC needed was a 100 point exam in a format of my choosing, an exam review to be sent to the students to help them prepare (course text I used was Laudon, Kenneth C. and Laudon, Jane P. (2007) Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 10th edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall), and an answer key (for myself).  The exam is scheduled for February 22 in Thailand, which ABAC will then express mail the exam results to my house in Alabama.  I will then grade the exams as “pass/fail”, with a score of 50 points as the threshold.  Finally, I will e-mail the results to ABAC and express mail the exams back to them.  I will be paid 50 baht per exam I grade, which comes to about $1.40 each exam (currently 36 baht = 1 dollar).  The money that ABAC offered or time I will need to put in was not a concern since this is really about continuing the partnerships that I established last summer in Thailand.

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