Imagine a boardroom where MBA students negotiate a multi-billion-dollar merger, not with spreadsheets and slides, but as avatars in a virtual skyscraper overlooking a digital cityscape. Across the table, their counterparts hail from different continents, and market conditions shift in real time based on AI-driven scenarios. This is the power of gamified learning in the…

Education, particularly in business schools, is undergoing a transformation fueled by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual technologies. As AI-driven faculty avatars and virtual teaching assistants (TAs) become increasingly sophisticated, their role in education has sparked discussions about the future of teaching, learning personalisation, and the evolving role of human educators. The rise of…

One of the obvious consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns has been the acceleration of the inevitable digital transformation. The impact is not only on consumption patterns or the way of working but also on the way of learning. Since the first e-learning initiatives in the 1970s, the industry has grown rapidly and…

Students do not learn and consume information as they did a generation ago, just as the skills needed to succeed on a job market are not the same either. The naturally gradual shift that occurs from generation to generation has only been accelerated in the digital age and even further by the pandemic. To close…

As Europe, and the world, entered the first weeks of pandemic lockdown in Spring 2020, a carefully planned inter-University finance simulation project was coming to fruition. Did the emergency impact its delivery? Did the 55 students engaged suffer delay and confusion? Did the academic staff using the simulation as the core of their own assessed…

Griet Houbrechts, EFMD Director of Professional Development Services, provides an overview of the many professional development opportunities that are being offered in 2021. The disruption caused by the pandemic laid the ground for a deeper reflection about our purpose and mission, the essence of teaching and learning experience, institutional boundaries, the relevance of research, and…