Открытое образование (Москва) (Dec 2016)
Teaching methods of work with data in the course of process management
Abstract
The purpose of research is the development of a distance training method to teach students to work with data, used in the training course of process approach to the enterprise management. A difficult point in teaching development of business-processes that involve the execution of business-process instances in the enterprise computer environment is the interaction of business processes with data in cases where process management is taught to students, studying in the field of business information technology or financial and accounting professions. As a rule, students of these specialties cannot singly install database servers on their home PCs for doing hands-on tasks by themselves and also do not have the necessary practical experience with database theory.The use of free software in the course allows students to obtain practical skills of working with business-process management system and also to do tasks on distance just by installing the necessary software on their PCs (laptops). The completed tasks of the course are put on the campus or sent to the lecturer by the e-mail.The method of teaching for the simplified work with data is based on the experience of teaching process subjects that has been obtained during four years in National University of Science and Technology MISiS and Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI). The method has proved itself in practice. The solutions, which did not show good practical effects were not included in the method.During the research the methods of work with data were determined and tested, allowing students of financial and accounting professions and also students, studying business information technology, to implement interaction of business-processes with data in learning process approach to the enterprise management. To reach the desired goal the free open-source software, used during the course, was modified.The article shows the experience of teaching methods of simplified work with data, which were implemented in a free enterprise business process management system RunaWFE. The stated method allows to create and configure business object repository without the assistance of a programmer or a system administrator not only in educational but also industrial business processes on the phases of development and testing and it will be helpful for the students, who completed the training program, in their follow-up business activities.
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