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The Cutting Edge
A new partnership is adding high-tech twists
to enhance the learning experience for Robinson
College students.
The partnership with IBM will leverage a new category of video
games called “serious games” in the classroom.
Serious games are designed for use as educational and training tools.
Just as airline pilots initially learn using flight simulators, serious games
provide an effective way of teaching new skills to a generation that
has been brought up in the video game era.
“IBM has created an immersive environment in which the what,
why, how, where, and when of business process discovery and
improvement are made more accessible to business students,”
said Richard J. Welke, professor and director of Robinson’s Center
for Process Innovation.
Robinson is one of the first colleges
in the world to use the game in the classroom.
 Stellar
Slate
Xernona Clayton, president and CEO, Trumpet Awards
Foundation Inc.; Mackey J. McDonald, chairman, VF
Corporation; Sam A. Williams, president, Metro Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce; and John A. Williams, CEO,
Williams Realty Advisors LLC, will be inducted into the Business
Hall of Fame at Georgia State University’s Robinson College
of Business. The 2008 Hall of Fame dinner will be held at the
InterContinental Hotel in Buckhead on May 15.
The four new additions to the Hall of Fame bring the total number
of inductees to 64. Other members include Ted Turner; Michael
Eskew, former chairman and CEO of UPS; John Wieland, chairman
and chief creative officer of John Wieland Homes; Arthur Blank,
chairman, president, and CEO of the Atlanta Falcons; James Copeland,
retired CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; the Honorable Zell Miller;
William P. Payne, chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club; and
the Honorable Andrew Young.
In 2009, the Hall of Fame will celebrate its 25th anniversary.
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