Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Different Kinds of New Courses: Information Systems Faculty Members’ Insights

Abstract

A common experience for business school faculty members is teaching a new course. Existing research provides examples of faculty members sharing their experience with teaching new courses (e.g., Payne et al., 2021). We complement existing research by focusing on a largely underexplored topic: how faculty members understand course newness and respond to the challenges and opportunities it entails. We conducted a collaborative autoethnography (Chang et al., 2016) to critically explore our own experiences. The resulting insights are aimed at improving pedagogical practices and can provide helpful guidance to faculty members -no matter their discipline- faced with teaching new courses.