Title: Inhibiting factors influencing adoption of simulation-based teaching from management teacher's perspective: prioritisation using analytic hierarchy process

Authors: Preeti Bhaskar; Priyanka Bhaskar; Ananth Anthonisamy; Padmalosani Dayalan; Amit Joshi

Addresses: University of Technology and Applied Science, Ibra, P.O. Box 327, Al Yahmadi Ibra, North Al Sharqiya, PC 400, Oman; ICFAI Business School, The ICFAI University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India ' Department of Management Studies, Kanya Gurukula Campus, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India ' University of Technology and Applied Science, Ibra, P.O. Box 327, Al Yahmadi Ibra, North Al Sharqiya, PC 400, Oman ' University of Technology and Applied Science, Ibra, P.O. Box 327, Al Yahmadi Ibra, North Al Sharqiya, PC 400, Oman ' ICFAI Business School, The ICFAI University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Abstract: Simulation-based teaching provides opportunities to simulate the scenarios/situations by integrating different technology into educational practice to make it look like a real situation. The use of a simulation approach has been widely used in health, engineering, nursing, architecture, medicine, aviation, and marine courses, ironically, management education has not been at the forefront of simulation-based learning. This research aims to prioritise the inhibiting barriers faced by teachers to adopting simulation-based teaching in higher education institutions of India. Previous studies have identified inhibiting factor but none of the studies has prioritise those factors therefore this research has used AHP approach to prioritise the inhibiting barriers. This study has identified and prioritises four main inhibiting factors. Institutional-level factors have secured the highest rank, followed by technological-level factors, operational-level factors and personal-level factors.

Keywords: inhibiting factors; technology adoption; simulation-based teaching; management teacher's perspective; prioritisation; analytic hierarchy process; AHP.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLC.2023.133110

International Journal of Learning and Change, 2023 Vol.15 No.5, pp.529 - 551

Received: 09 Sep 2021
Accepted: 22 Dec 2021
Published online: 01 Sep 2023 *

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