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

Additional URL

https://aisel.aisnet.org/siged2018/2/

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