Wollongong Academy for Tertiary Teaching & Learning Excellence (WATTLE) hosts workshops, seminars, and events that unite the UOW community to enhance learning & teaching practices. These activities are driven to support staff collaboration and provide a space for sharing knowledge and fostering connections within the teaching community.
Upcoming Events
Partial Information Exercise (PIE) for Business School Classes
Developed by award winning Teaching Professor Brent Snider at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, the PIE approach won the award for Best Paper (Teaching) for both the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) annual conference in 2017 and the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education (DSJIE) in 2019. Since then, the PIE approach has been successfully used at university business schools classes in the UK, USA, and Canada, at both the undergraduate and MBA levels.
Date: 24 March 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: On Campus - Wollongong
Presenter: Professor Brent Snider
Brent is a Teaching Professor in the operations and supply chain management area. He has been teaching at the Haskayne School of Business since 2003. Brent graduated with distinction from Wilfrid Laurier University's Honours Bachelor of Business Administration program in 1997. He obtained the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation from The Society of Management Accountants of Ontario in 2000. In 2004, Brent completed the MBA thesis program at University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business, majoring in operations management. Prior to joining Haskayne, Brent worked in the automotive industry with Linamar, the injection molding industry with Husky Injection Molding Systems, and the ERP software industry with Navision Software (now Microsoft Dynamics) and as an implementation project manager.
Brent teaches in the areas of operations management, supply chain management, and project management for the undergraduate and Executive MBA program.
Brent's research interests now focus on Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL), specifically innovative pedagogical approaches for management education. His work has been published in Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education (DSJIE), INFORMS Transactions on Education (ITE), and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM).
Brent has won numerous awards for his teaching (nine), research (four), and service (one) to date. His inquiry learning intermodal supply chain exercise won the Nigel Slack teaching innovation award at the international EurOMA 2017 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland and his paper “ERP implementation at SMEs: analysis of five Canadian cases” won the Outstanding Paper Award from the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM) for 2010.