BGA | BUSINESS IMPACT
“We encouraged collaborative projects so students could have real-life scenarios to help them emerge in real-world applications of their learning”
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We made shorter segments of lectures and sent out interactive videos to all students to allow them to better understand the chapters and lectures. We started a partnership with a professional filming studio in Geneva, called Dukascopy TV. We sent our professors to record their sessions in this impressive environment. We also encouraged collaborative projects, so that students could have real-life scenarios to help them emerge in real-world applications of their learning.” Part three: Opportunities and success stories Having talked about the opportunities and limitations of engagement data, the discussion moved to how participants saw their business schools adapting to coming back to campus, while keeping those elements of online learning that worked well. Debbie Kemp, MBA director, Kent Business School: “I think the most obvious positive to come out of online learning was the opportunities for guest lectures and for alumni engagement. “All of a sudden, you were not constrained by needing somebody to come to your physical institution, and this gave us the opportunity to talk to people from around the world who were willing to share their experiences. “We will continue to have our MBA guest lecture series online even though we’ve gone back to face-to-face teaching and, in doing this, we have captured a much wider audience of students and alumni. “I found academic advising online was a real success. Some students like to come and see you in person but, particularly
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Overall, for me, we still have a long way to go. We have settled into offering classes through online platforms, but in terms of perfecting what we are doing, we really have to invest a little bit more, not only financially but we also need to invest time in understanding what needs to be done to make this work.” Yasmina Kashouh, head of academics and innovation, College de Paris International: “To maintain student engagement, we used a method of approaching all students and creating an interactive board. This platform was somewhere all students could communicate and share their concerns. “We also built an online learning committee which was responsible for ensuring that all the students were engaged with their studies and that no students were facing any trouble. The Canvas by Instructure Learning Management Platform is developed and fully supported by Instructure, a software as a service (SaaS) technology company dedicated to education, learning and employee development. Canvas by Instructure delivers an open, extensible learning ecosystem that allows institutions to build a digital learning environment that meets the unique challenges they face
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