Why Every Student Should Register
GLO-BUS creates a global market environment in cyberspace where students can engage in running companies, make decisions in a variety of functional and strategic areas, and practice applying the core concepts and analytic tools of strategic management and international business. The GLO-BUS online simulation exercise capitalizes on the Internet's "anywhere, anytime" educational capabilities and, in effect, serves as a virtual classroom that is an integral adjunct to your course.
Just as you expect that students must officially register for your course, attend regularly, and fully participate in your classroom activities, so also should they be expected to officially register for GLO-BUS and fully participate in the virtual classroom exercise.
All company co-managers need to attend the virtual GLO-BUS classroom so they can work effectively together. GLO-BUS is fundamentally a team activity. The team atmosphere in a simulation is adversely affected when some students on a team register and others are allowed to be free-riders.
Moreover, GLO-BUS records and reports individual participation, as well as decision-by-decision company performances. GLO-BUS incorporates peer evaluations and two online quizzes, plus it logs individual website and simulation activity. Both company and individual performances are automatically recorded in a built-in grade book that makes it easy for you to monitor and evaluate performance and assign grades. Failure of students to register means that instructors do not get a report containing the individual performances of all class members. There is also an internal e-mail system that automatically notifies all registered participants of the availability of decision results, any changes in the decision schedule, and any GLO-BUS-related messages that instructors wish to send out-students who don't register can get left out of the loop. The entire GLO-BUS exercise functions more smoothly from an instructor perspective when all class members are registered.
Thus, the copyright and intellectual property issues, the team nature of the exercise, and the desire to provide you with seamless, convenient use of GLO-BUS in your course account are the reasons we ask you to accept the following User Agreement:
User Agreement
Should I adopt GLO-BUS for use in my course, I agree to ask every student enrolled in my course to register at the GLO-BUS website (www.glo-bus.com) and I agree to encourage student respect for the intellectual property and copyrights of the authors and the publisher, McGraw-Hill.
