Title

Spreadsheet Simulation of Airline Reservation Policy Using Multimedia Software

Authors

Joel Oberstone, University of San FranciscoFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

A hypothetical business simulation case study using a stand-alone spreadsheet is used to illuminate the rationale of airline overbooking. Because almost everyone has personally encountered the implications of being “bumped,” the selection of this particular case subject is motivated by the belief that half of the problem (or more) of teaching a so-phisticated analytical method is in getting the stu-dent's attention. Airline overbooking, it seems, pre-sents such a case. In order for a student to “drill down” the spreadsheet skills, several multimedia tools, Wimba and Jing, are used to produce web hosted, mp4 video files of a library of short films illustrating each step of the spreadsheet operation

Comments

Published under Creative Commons License 3.0 Austria (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.en_GB)

Published by International Association of Online Engineering and available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijac.v3i1.1169

DOI

10.3991/ijac.v3i1.1169

Recommended Citation

Joel Lee Oberstone. Spreadsheet Simulation of Airline Reservation Policy Using Multimedia Software. International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning. Vol 3 No 1 (2010).