Creating Relevant Critical Thinking Projects

1. Creating Relevant Critical Thinking Projects Karen Moustafa Nichaya Suntornpithug Zelimir Todorovic Department of Management and Marketing Doermer School of Business and Management Sciences Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

2. Creating Relevant Critical Thinking Projects • Karen Moustafa • Overview of Critical Thinking/Active Learning • Zelimir Todorovic • Entrepreneurship • Nichaya Suntornpithug • Marketing and International Business • Karen Moustafa • Leadership classes

3. ©2007 Foundation for Critical Thinking Press www.criticalthinking.org

4. What is Critical Thinking • Expanded Contemporary Emphasis

5. Critical Thinking Purpose Research question Information Inferences/Conclusions Concepts/Main idea Assumptions Implications/Consequences Points of view

6. Zelimir Todorovic Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property

7. Entrepreneurship Education Dynamic Static • Consists of Dynamic and Static Components • Emerging Components • Applied • Student Dependent • Traditional Components • Theoretical • Constant state

8. Contingency Based Education • Do not give them an answer => Tell them how to reach an answer • Action Based Education • Do not tell them how to do it => Let them do it • Achievement Based Education • Do not focus on minimum acceptable standards => Focus on Individual achievement

9. Intellectual Property Development Comfort Conflict Ambiguity Status Quo • Introduced 38 patents from Purdue University, West Lafayette • Developed commercialization plans • Present commercialization plans • Establish licensing rights • Compete in World Business Plan Competitions

10. Nichaya Suntornpithug Marketing and International Business

11. What is Special Studies in International Business Admin? Course Goals Project-Based Learning/Experiential Learning

12. “Thinking about your thinking while thinking to make your thinking better.”

13. Experiential learning Ongoing assessment Problem-based learning Critical thinking Cooperative learning Constraints Information

14. Karen Moustafa Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Human Resource Management

15. Problem: • Critical thinking essential to leadership • Need for practical application of the topic • Senior students • Three hour course

16. Resolution: • Army Leadership School • Readings from outside sources • Internet • Academic journals • Practical demonstrations where possible

17. Resolution: • Book analysis (not report) • Topic papers • Project report • Team work with not-for-profit • Consultancy with profit organization • Empirical research project

18. Thoughts, Ideas, Concepts

19. We hope the presentation has sparked ideas • We would like to work across disciplines as much as possible • Please contact us if you would like assistance or to join in some of our work.