IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/accted/v22y2013i2p109-124.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Using Digital Storytelling to Engage Student Learning

Author

Listed:
  • Themin Suwardy
  • Gary Pan
  • Poh-Sun Seow

Abstract

No one really knows what the first story ever told in human history was, but storytelling is an art that spans many civilizations and cultures, and continues to be a major part of our modern lives. More recently, storytelling has gone digital with advances in technology and connectivity. Educators have also rediscovered how storytelling can be an effective teaching pedagogy for engaged student learning. A digital story can engage students' visual and auditory senses in a way that the written word alone cannot. This article describes such an effort. The Movie-Door-2-Door.com (MD2D) is a digital story spanning 12 episodes. The story revolves around three young business graduates who started their own business and discovered the role of financial information in managing a business along the way. An independent survey by the University's teaching unit showed that the use of such digital stories can be an appropriate pedagogy to help student contextualize accounting and its role in helping management make decisions. The first four episodes of the MD2D digital story are available for viewing at www.research.smu.edu.sg/faculty/MD2D/.

Suggested Citation

  • Themin Suwardy & Gary Pan & Poh-Sun Seow, 2013. "Using Digital Storytelling to Engage Student Learning," Accounting Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 109-124, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:accted:v:22:y:2013:i:2:p:109-124
    DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2012.748505
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09639284.2012.748505
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09639284.2012.748505?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. D. Larry Crumbley & L. Murphy Smith, 2000. "Using short stories to teach critical thinking and communication skills to tax students," Accounting Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(3), pages 291-296.
    2. C. Janie Chang & Nen-chen Richard Hwang, 2003. "Accounting education, firm training and information technology: a research note," Accounting Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(4), pages 441-450.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Douglass, Ashley & Farías Martínez, Gabriela María & Holmes, Amy F., 2022. "Bringing COSO to life: Engaging students with real world examples of internal controls using digital storytelling," Journal of Accounting Education, Elsevier, vol. 58(C).
    2. Corina Joseph & Mariam Rahmat, 2018. "Exploring the Perception on using the Competition Based Learning Winning Video as a Pedagogical Tool in an Accounting Course," International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, vol. 8(2), pages 440-451, February.
    3. Apostolou, Barbara & Dorminey, Jack W. & Hassell, John M. & Rebele, James E., 2015. "Accounting education literature review (2013–2014)," Journal of Accounting Education, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 69-127.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Watty, Kim & McKay, Jade & Ngo, Leanne, 2016. "Innovators or inhibitors? Accounting faculty resistance to new educational technologies in higher education," Journal of Accounting Education, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 1-15.
    2. Patricia Lee Huff, 2014. "The Goal Project: A Group Assignment to Encourage Creative Thinking, Leadership Abilities and Communication Skills," Accounting Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(6), pages 582-594, December.
    3. Paisey, Catriona & Paisey, Nicholas J., 2010. "Developing skills via work placements in accounting: Student and employer views," Accounting forum, Elsevier, vol. 34(2), pages 89-108.
    4. Terry Harris, 2014. "ICTs and the Accounting Profession in a SIDS," Accounting and Finance Research, Sciedu Press, vol. 3(3), pages 1-58, August.
    5. Hamood Mohammed Al-Hattami, 2021. "University Accounting Curriculum, IT, and Job Market Demands: Evidence From Yemen," SAGE Open, , vol. 11(2), pages 21582440211, April.
    6. Andiola, Lindsay M. & Masters, Erin & Norman, Carolyn, 2020. "Integrating technology and data analytic skills into the accounting curriculum: Accounting department leaders’ experiences and insights," Journal of Accounting Education, Elsevier, vol. 50(C).
    7. Khaldoon Al-Htaybat & Larissa von Alberti-Alhtaybat & Zaidoon Alhatabat, 2018. "Educating digital natives for the future: accounting educators’ evaluation of the accounting curriculum," Accounting Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(4), pages 333-357, July.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:accted:v:22:y:2013:i:2:p:109-124. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RAED20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.