Eye on the Gemba: Using Student-Created Videos and the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy to Teach Lean Management

Abstract

Developing exercises that lead students to use higher order thinking skills is a challenge for faculty in any discipline. An excellent way to approach this problem is to use the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy as a guide. In the taxonomy, the highest level of learning is to create. The author describes an assignment that builds on the use of lecture, tests, and games represented in different levels in the taxonomy by giving students the opportunity to develop, revise, and create videos illustrating lean terms. This enables students to understand these terms better, which will help them when they are in the gemba, or workplace, solving real problems.