Tutorial: SMU Teaching Bank: Enhancing classroom learning for digital banking and IT architecture related courses
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Publication Date
12-2018
Abstract
SMU Teaching Bank (or “SMU tBank”), is a fully functioning online bank developed by students for teaching purposes, using today’s architecture best practices. The mission of SMU tBank is to become a world class “teaching bank”, generating an on-going supply of undergrad and postgrad student projects whereby classroom learning outcomes can be put into practice, leveraging industry leading banking software and enterprise platforms. SMU tBank is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation. Students develop banking applications (e.g.; Branch Teller, Internet Banking, Mobile Banking, General Ledger, Interbank Payments, etc.) that reuse services exposed via an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Using this architecture we are able to demonstrate large-scale change scenarios such as; a core banking system replacement, a new payments messaging standard, a bank merger whereby multiple vendor products need to coexist. SMU tBank is used in the classroom to teach banking concepts as well as architecture best practices. Students that develop SMU tBank gain a deep technical understanding of how a bank works. As well as gaining banking domain knowledge, students benefit from implementing industry best practices in enterprise architecture.
Keywords
teaching, banking, classroom labs, gamification, information systems, IT architecture
Discipline
Educational Methods | Finance and Financial Management | Higher Education | Systems Architecture
Research Areas
Information Systems and Management
Publication
Proceedings of the 2018 AIS Special Interest Group for Education (SIGED): San Francisco, December 12-13
First Page
1
Last Page
30
Publisher
AIS
City or Country
San Francisco
Citation
MEGARGEL, Alan @ Ali MADJELISI.
Tutorial: SMU Teaching Bank: Enhancing classroom learning for digital banking and IT architecture related courses. (2018). Proceedings of the 2018 AIS Special Interest Group for Education (SIGED): San Francisco, December 12-13. 1-30.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6910
Additional URL
https://aisel.aisnet.org/siged2018/2/