Bringing Real World Experience to the Classroom

Authors

Charles R. Woratschek, Robert Morris College

Abstract

Students appreciate real world experiences in the classroom and college professors need periodic breaks from the classroom. To bring current real world experience to the classroom I decided to apply for a full-time sabbatical leave from my teaching duties and enter the business community as a full-time employee. I was granted the sabbatical leave for the Fall 1998 - Spring 1999 academic year and secured full-time employment in a financial institution as a programmer/analyst, working with a team of thirteen individuals who dealt with on-line banking, supporting such products as Managing Your Money, Quicken, and Quickbooks. The system was written on an IBM mainframe in DB2 and used COBOL II and CICS.

Recommended Citation

Woratschek, Charles R. (2000) "Bringing Real World Experience to the Classroom," Journal of Information Systems Education: Vol. 11 : Iss. 1 , 3-4.
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jise/vol11/iss1/1