Development of an ERP System Design Course to Improve Students' Learning Outcomes

Abstract

This paper describes the design and evaluation of an ERP system design course, which utilizes experiential learning theory along with open ERP sys-tem to provide the students with a holistic and cost-free learning environ-ment. The objective of the course is to familiarize students with the ERP se-lection and implementation life-cycle. When designing the pedagogical framework, the goal was to help students, especially those with little to no working experience to acquire the necessary knowledge, and develop the practical technical experience. Additionally, it was necessary to help students appreciate the depth and issues involved in the ERP system selection and implementation life-cycle. Lectures, case discussions, system demos with interactive labs, and group projects were used all together to enable in depth learning of the proposed topics. We focus on open source ERP system to provide the students with the required hands-on experience, and also to demonstrate that such approach can be utilized even by low resource universities. This paper includes details of the proposed framework. The proposed framework was taught and evaluated in a 1-semester graduate level course at the university of Jeddah, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The course design was in-directly assessed using a survey, and the results revealed the positive impact that the proposed framework had on students’ learning outcomes. The results of the assessment support that experiential based learning using open source ERP systems can lead to improved learning outcome.

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“…From a methodological point of view, we used an approach based on the experiential learning theory proposed by Kolb [1] and the use of the ePortfolio as an instrument to evaluate the acquired practical knowledge, in line with the pedagogical framework proposed by Ruhi [2], specifically in the capstone project pedagogical practice. In the existing literature, we found a work with some similarities in the pedagogical approach, however, in a different scope, directed to a master's program course, of a more technological nature and focused on the life cycle of selection and implementation of an ERP [8]. In our curricular unit, we specifically intend to highlight the role of ICT as a facilitator of supply chain processes and logistical activities.…”

“…Currently, the benefits inherent to the use of ERP are no longer exclusive to large companies, because there are open-source solutions on the market that are available online, financially more accessible, among other advantages, which allows their adoption by small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) [4] [5] [6] [7]. This reality extends to educational institutions, where the cost of these types of solutions is usually the biggest barrier to their adoption [8].…”

“…This article describes our experience in the implementation of the open-source ERP online solution, Odoo, to support the laboratory component of the theoretical/laboratory classes of the curricular unit "Information and Communication Technologies in Distribution and Logistics Management". In the available literature, we find works that support the adoption of this solution, in SMEs[4] [7] [10][11] [12], in school management[13] [14] or in the design of training offer[8] [ 15] by educational institutions.…”

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