Design and application of practical teaching framework of ERP course

To make students have a deep understanding on ERP and to improve the students´ practical ability, this paper designs a practical teaching framework of ERP course. The framework consists of three parts: experiments in the lab, extracurricular activities and internship in a certain software company. Furthermore, there are three levels of experiments in the lab: business scenario simulation, business process and roles collaboration designed according to Zachman´s enterprise architecture framework. Extracurricular activities include the research of ERP business game, the simulation of development and testing of some ERP modules, the implementation solution design of ERP. Students´ jobs in internship may be system development, system testing, system implementation and customer service. The framework has been applied in real teaching environment and has gotten good results.