Virtual Technology Information Enterprises (VEIT): An Integrated Vehicle for Technology Education Reform

Kingsborough社区学院通过在虚拟企业课程中应用技术内容来改革IT和其他技术教育，该课程强调商业和软技能，如人际沟通、写作和对文化差异的敏感性。虚拟企业教育是一种商业和创业模拟，学生在其中创建和经营虚拟公司，并通过电子商务在40个国家的4,000家公司的全球网络中交易虚拟或真实的产品和服务。它为学生提供了一座连接学校和职业的桥梁，让他们沉浸在一个现实但安全的科技和商业环境中。该项目建立在金士伯勒多年的经验基础上，基于该事务所的欧洲模式；但虚拟企业缺乏技术支柱来整合更高层次的信息技术技能。规划补助金用于评估需求；开发和修改技术课程的虚拟企业场景；评估虚拟企业课程是否满足学生、教师和行业的需求；并在金斯堡大学和纽约市立大学的其他技术项目中获得支持和采纳。

Kingsborough Community College reforms IT and other technical education by applying technical content in the Virtual Enterprise curriculum that emphasizes business and soft skills such as interpersonal communications, writing, and sensitivity to cultural differences. Virtual Enterprise education is a business and entrepreneurship simulation in which students create and operate virtual firms and trade virtual or real products and services through e-commerce in a global network of 4,000 firms in 40 countries. It provides students with a bridge between school and career by immersing them in a realistic, but safe, technology and business environment. The project builds on several years of experience at Kingsborough based on the European model of the Practice Firm; but Virtual Enterprise lacks the technological backbone to incorporate higher-level information technology skills. The planning grant is to assess needs; to develop, and modify Virtual Enterprise scenarios for technical courses of study; to evaluate that the Virtual Enterprise Course meets student, faculty program and industry needs; and to gain support and adoption in other technical programs at Kingsborough and other CUNY colleges.