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The future started many years ago and the pandemic accelerated this disruption
Transforming learning into business impact In a conference session streamed live from Mexico, Ignacio de la Vega, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Faculty and Internationalization at Tecnilógico de Monterrey, discussed his research on the topic of transforming learning into business impact. De la Vega explained that capitalism – which Business Schools teach – isn’t sufficient to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, or to mitigate its impact, arguing that it is up to all of us to work towards improvement and to harness the positives of its disruption. For example, he argued that the pandemic has helped the ‘world to heal’, with people’s confinement within their homes enhancing the planet’s environmental health, due to a reduction in pollution and waste. ‘The future started many years ago and the pandemic accelerated this disruption,’ he said. For Business Schools and many other educational organisations, the disruption has led to a ‘new model’ of learning during Covid-19, with programmes going fully online. However, this new approach has not been embraced by all, due to issues such as a lack of equipment, funding and access
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