Salinas-Navarro, David Ernesto, Arias-Portela, Claudia Yohana, Cruz, José Rubén González de la and Vilalta-Perdomo, Eliseo (2024). Experiential Learning for Circular Operations Management in Higher Education. Sustainability, 16 (2),
Abstract
This research-to-practice article delves into novel learning experiences for operations management education, involving the circular economy and experiential learning. Higher Education academics are required to develop effective learning that actively and impactfully helps nurture in students the essential competency to face sustainable development demands. In operations management education, one possibility is to integrate real-world circular economy challenges into learning activities that address issues concerning solid waste generation in business processes and operations. This type of innovative learning experience involves both conceptual understanding and practical implementation. Accordingly, experiential learning is considered a suitable pedagogy for this purpose in this work because of its hands-on applications, critical thinking, and active engagement. To illustrate this proposition, this paper presents a case study concerning an operations management undergraduate course at a Mexican university. The case study indicates how to translate a situation of solid waste generation in a business into relevant disciplinary experiential learning. The results show that students regarded the learning experience as motivating, interesting, and relevant while widely accomplishing their learning objectives. However, limitations did exist regarding experiential learning, the methodological approach, data collection, and implementation challenges. Future work points to the need for further learning experiences and to improve research reliability, transferability, and validity.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su16020798 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School ?? RG1020 ?? Aston University (General) |
Additional Information: | © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sustainable Development Goals,circular economy,educational innovation,engineering education,experiential learning,higher education,operations management,sustainability,Computer Science (miscellaneous),Environmental Science (miscellaneous),Geography, Planning and Development,Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Hardware and Architecture,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Computer Networks and Communications,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment |
Publication ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2024 09:03 |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2024 13:38 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2024-01-17 |
Accepted Date: | 2023-12-23 |
Authors: |
Salinas-Navarro, David Ernesto
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0000-0002-7919-4885)
Arias-Portela, Claudia Yohana Cruz, José Rubén González de la Vilalta-Perdomo, Eliseo ( 0000-0002-4551-8327) |