Some Insights on Scaling Analytical Experimental Learning Projects in Schools of Business

This talk provides insights and live-and-learn lessons when considering changing your classroom environment from a traditional class to one that is heavily experimental learning focused. The motivation for this talk comes from... [ view full abstract ]

This talk provides insights and live-and-learn lessons when considering changing your classroom environment from a traditional class to one that is heavily experimental learning focused. The motivation for this talk comes from the rise in business analytics programs and their fundamental necessity to have classes that not only teach descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive techniques, but also provide students real-world experiences. I will talk about what I have been doing in my data mining and predictive analytics courses for students in Purdue’s M.S. in Business Analytics and Information Management (BAIM) program the past two years, and hope to have a discussion with the audience about the holy grail question that all of analytics programs have: “How do we scale?”