Enhancing cultural intelligence and digital literacy in accounting education: Insights from a university’s global student consulting programme

• Main Authors: GOH, Clarence, KUSNADI, Yuanto, PAN, Gary, SEOW, Poh Sun
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Cultural Intelligence; Digital Literacy; Project Based Learning; Partnership Management; Accounting; Asian Studies; Higher Education
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1899; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2926/viewcontent/Paper_Post_Print__3_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recent literature has advocated for the use of project based learning to engage students in active learning. This study examines how students’ learning of cultural intelligence and digital literacy are enhanced through an overseas project-based learning (PBL) programme at a Singapore University (UNIS), called the UNIS-XO pedagogy. Specifically, this study provides a framework through which students, faculty members, and industry partner can collaborate through consulting programs with the aim to provide feasible recommendations to the clients. Our findings suggest that an experiential PBL with an overseas client is an important learning experience through which students can strengthen their digital literacy as well as cross-cultural competency to make them more future-ready for their work.