Who’s in Charge? Designing Experiential Project Courses to Expose Students to the Multi-Stakeholder World of Work Today

Abstract

Experiential field-based learning (FBL) courses have an increasing presence in business school programs. Tools are needed to help with the effective design, analysis and curriculum development of this multi-stakeholder project-based pedagogy. The FBL Social Network Model can be used for this type of analysis and can be applied in various ways. This article reviews this framework, how to deploy it and its relevance around effectively designing FBL courses to prepare students for the multi-dimensional demands of the digital world of work today.