Events

The Annual Conference of the Accounting Education Special Interest Group (AESIG2019) of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) will be organized in Ghent, 22-24 May 2019. We warmly invite experienced researchers, early stage researchers, instructors and professionals with an interest in accounting education to join us for the 2019 conference, on 22-24 May 2019 in Ghent (Belgium). The conference location is in the middle of the medieval city of Ghent. Paper submission are open now.

From idea to project to finished product: DUGA 1.0 is ready for launch! We are proud to announce that every professor and lecturer at UGent can use DUGA within his or her course as from Monday 1 October 2018.

Board games usually involve a series of simple and innovative game mechanics that together allow depth of play, requiring the players to think, plan and shift tactics in a competitive and pleasant environment. By using board games players can develop higher order thinking skills in an accounting context. In this workshop we present and discuss two board games (Monoply and 30 seconds), in which game elements were carefully chosen to merge with the accounting content and therefore create an engaging and fun learning experience.

The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Ghent University) organized a workshop for teachers with the topic ‘Gamification’. A workshop organised in cooperation with masters students. The content of the workshop is in line with the curriculum of secundary education.

On March 22, 2018, we presented the educational app DUGA to a lot of interested colleagues from the faculty of economics and business administration, during a session 'innovation on your plate' organized by the Education Quality Control Unit of the faculty.

Empirical data show that a more deep processing of the course leads to a higher gain of learning in an economic context. During the presentation we discuss the drivers of the different learning approaches.

Each student has its own learning preference, but learning increases with active participation. We discuss one of the active learning forms, namely team learning.