Archive for March 2020
The lessons learned from online teaching
Alex Connock, Fellow in Management Practice at the Saïd Business School, Oxford University, specialising in digital media, arts and entertainment, who has worked in the media since the 1990s, now offers a peek behind the scenes of his online teaching. Last week I taught Digital and Social Media Strategy to a class of over 50…
Read MoreHow to effectively work from home
Are you feeling lost working from home? Read tips and tricks shared by Dan Pontefract in his Remote Leadership Toolkit and The Basics of Working from Home Toolkit. Dan is the CEO and Founder of the Pontefract Group, and he is also an author, speaker, thinker, leadership strategist, and a poet. Dan is not only an…
Read MoreGlobal Virtual Conference: The Epidemiology and Economics of Coronavirus
The COVID-19 global health pandemic is rapidly changing the ways we live and work. In the age of sustainable development and at a time when the world is working towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this disease is complicating SDG implementation efforts as well as posing a real risk to achieving targets on…
Read MoreStepping up your online game
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many educational institutions around the globe to move online in just a matter of days. While many administrators have thought or hoped that this situation is going to be short-lived, the current developments indicate the opposite: online teaching is here to stay! With this realization, pressure by faculty and students…
Read MoreCorporate learning during a crisis
EFMD invited its corporate members to participate in a Zoom call on 23 March on the topic of corporate learning during the pandemic. Over fifty learning & development professionals joined the call from 14 countries to discuss the following issues: How to keep the organisation’s workforce engaged and productive, and maintain their capacity to work…
Read MoreSupport for moving case classes online quickly
Supporting the case community As Coronavirus (COVID-19) causes the usual delivery of programmes around the world to be disrupted, making the move to teaching cases online quickly will be a huge challenge for many, both technically and pedagogically. The Case Centre has been working on a range of ways to support the case community during…
Read MoreThe reorganisation of teaching at MIP Politecnico di Milano
Sergio Oliveri, Head of Promotion & International Media Relations at MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business, describes the swift transition of the Business School to teaching online and interviews four professors, who share their impressions. Classes at MIP stopped only for one day. The timely reorganisation of the teaching schedule guaranteed the normal…
Read MoreOnline Learning for Business Education
Henry Stewart Talks is providing free access to a series of talks, ‘Online Learning for Business Education’ published in The Business & Management Collection. If you or your institution is moving its courses online as a result of the pandemic and would like to access the series, please get in touch with Jonathan Tuchband, who…
Read MoreSchool Leadership and COVID-19: Making Lemonade or Doing More of the Same?
School LEADERSHIP is more important now than ever before. The COVID-19 has changed schools’ reality in general and the concept of teaching in particular. School leaders are looking for a new world of teaching that will cater to the diverse needs of their students. Learning to operate in challenging and unpredictable circumstances, principals need to…
Read MoreCOVID-19: updates & actions
Updated on 2 April 2020* The coronavirus is having a significant impact on individuals, which is equally affecting the operations of business education and corporate institutions across our network. Given the WHO announcement declaring the spread of COVID-19 a pandemic, we are taking appropriate actions to ensure a safe environment for our members, associates, volunteers…
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