Posts Tagged ‘online education’
Will future learning and teaching be affected by the Covid-19 pandemic?
Professor José Ramón Cobo-Benita of ESCP Business School tells Stephanie Mullins, Associate Director at BlueSky Education, about the learning and teaching of tomorrow. Here’s what he had to say… In recent months, higher education institutions have demonstrated their significant ability to adapt very quickly to the crisis, with flexibility. But how many of those had…
Read MoreWhat does the ‘new normal’ for business school teaching need?
Change Until there is a vaccine for Covid-19, and perhaps even after that, health guidelines will make in-person teaching impossible for large groups. Universities are impelled to implement a flexible approach that assumes students will need to switch between online and campus-based teaching throughout the coming academic year. Accordingly, all university staff now need to…
Read MoreEight challenges facing distance-learning
By Jean-François Fiorina, Vice-Dean / Program Director at Grenoble Ecole de Management The theme for this year’s GEM Geopolitics Festival was “Digital (R)evolution.” Little did we know that this topic was going to be 100% spot-on as the COVID-19 pandemic just showed us how central digital issues are for businesses and educational institutions’ crisis management (and…
Read MoreSDG Academy Community of Practice
When it comes to education for sustainable development, community is just as important as content. That’s why the SDG Academy has launched its new Community of Practice, which brings together leaders from academia, civil society, business, and more for peer learning around Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) training and education. Whether your institution or organisation has been…
Read MoreOnline Learning: Using the RENT framework to develop Scalable Personalisation
A recent EOCCS webinar input by Brent Gregory of the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, described the RENT framework. The framework is an educational view of the roles of management (Adizes, 1988) and an enabling mechanism for Scalable Personalisation (SP). SP is where the student learning journey is tailored to align with student needs…
Read MoreUniversities, Be Aware: Start-Ups Strip Away Your Glory
About EdTech’s potential take-over of the higher education sector In 2012, the New York Times proclaimed the year of the MOOC, stating that online courses delivered on platforms such as Coursera and Udacity would disrupt the higher education sector. Universities and business schools worldwide pointed to the fact that studying is far more than listening…
Read MoreStaring at Goats: How do we engage students remotely?
As if engagement wasn’t challenging enough already! Engagement is on political agendas worldwide, as competitive metrication takes hold. It’s part of key annual surveys indicating institutional quality. It’s also part of the language and rhetoric of Continuing Professional Development. To top it all, learning spaces are populated by students using distracting, disengaging mobile devices. Now,…
Read MoreGamification: its place in higher education and how you fit in
Has the digital world brought too many distractions for your learners? Teaching in these digital times means that we all have access to more information immediately, and this has many positives, but it also means that we are “competing” with that access, all the time. Should we forbid digital devices during our face-to-face sessions? What…
Read MoreAUC School of Business Executive Education Shifts to Live Online Learning
With the unprecedented coronavirus outbreak and campus closures worldwide, education institutions are confronted with a new normal to which they have to adapt. The AUC School of Business Executive Education introduced live online learning for the first time, to continue providing learners with the knowledge to navigate the uncertainty. Read the original article here. While…
Read More5 ways the COVID-19 pandemic is a game changer for the business education ecosystem
Ahmed Abdel-Meguid is the associate dean for undergraduate studies and administration, and an associate professor of accounting at the American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business. He discusses five main effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on business schools, companies and accreditation and ranking bodies in his article published in the Business Forward, the AUC School…
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