Pre-Conference Workshop FD2
GBSN Summit on Experiential eLearning. Training Global Leaders through Practice and Partnership
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – Room Schöneberg I/II Price: 320.00 € Status: places available
Workshop leaders
Guy Pfeffermann
CEO, Global Business School Network (GBSN), USA
After 40 years as an economist at the World Bank, including 15 years as Chief Economist of the International Finance Corporation, he saw too often how lack of management talent was impeding economic and social development in communities throughout the developing world. Now as CEO of GBSN, which started at the IFC and is today an independent nonprofit, Guy oversees programs and events that harness the expertise and passion of a worldwide network of leading business schools to strengthen the institutions and educators who deliver management education for the developing world. GBSN’s unique approach pairs a robust network of experts with efficient administration to build institutional capacity, foster collaboration and disseminate knowledge, all aimed at promoting management education that delivers international best practice with local relevance.
Born in Montauban, France, Mr. Pfeffermann received his Licence en Droit et Sciences Economiques in Paris in 1962 and was awarded first prize, Concours General, a French national inter-university essay competition. He was a Besse scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford from 1962-65 and received a B.Litt. (Oxon.) in 1967 for his thesis: "Industrial Labour in Senegal," which was also published as a book.
From 2000-2003 he was an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. From 2003-2007, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the GlobalGiving Foundation. He published "Paths out of Poverty – The Role of Private Enterprise in Developing Countries (IFC, 2000). He is currently on the Advisory Board of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS). Guy is also a member of the African Management Initiative's Advisory Panel. His most recent publications include “Technology, Education and the Developing World” in nBizEd, a publication of the AACSB (July/August 2013) and “Cutting a Path to Prosperity – How Education Pioneers are Building Better Business Schools for the Developing World… and Why” (with co-authors, 2013). Guy is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management.
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Erik Jentges
Educational Developer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Erik Jentges is the educational developer at ETH Zurich’s Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC). He consults and works on a range of activities from conceptualizing and re-designing courses to developing feedback and evaluation processes with faculty. Erik has been a lecturer in Sociology, Political Science, Media Studies and Management at universities in Switzerland and abroad. He has worked for many years with several NGOs on intercultural youth exchanges and adult education across Europe.
Erik completed his PhD in sociology in 2009 at Humboldt University Berlin and holds a diploma in social sciences following studies at Humboldt and at ENS de Cachan in Paris. In 2014-15, he conducted research as the Swiss Scholar in the Global Europe Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. He is perminent resident in the D-MTEC Teaching Innovations Lab at ETH Zurich.
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http://www.sustec.ethz.ch/people/affili…
Mark Fenton-O'Creevy
Associate Dean External Engagement; Professor of Organisational Behaviour, The Open University Business School, UK
Mark Fenton-O'Creevy is an educator, researcher and consultant with three current primary areas of interest.
1) He has a long standing interest in the work, behaviour and performance of professional traders. and the role of emotion in financial decision-making for traders and investors.
2) He studies the ways in which business and management practices develop and are transformed or corrupted within businesses and organisations.
3) He has a profound interest in the relationship between formal and informal learning. He previously ran a national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, the Centre for Practice-Based Professional Learning. His book on "Learning in Landscapes of Practice" with Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Beverly Wenger-Trayner, Chris Kubiak and Steve Hutchinson, further develops work on communities of practice. He codirects the AACSB Seminar on "Online and Blended Education".
Mark has also acted as an academic advisor to a range of BBC documentaries.
Links
http://business-school.open.ac.uk/peopl…
Content
Today's students want to be active participants in the learning experience, whether they are in the classroom or learning online. They are looking for an education that will translate fluidly into their working lives on day one. Employers need to hire and train knowledgeable managers who can work in an increasingly multi-cultural environment, doing business across borders and utilizing multiple platforms to get the job done. As these students and employers look more and more to online education options, innovative educators are using technology to transform the experiential learning techniques that are used at leading business schools around the globe for the eLearning environment.
Technology gives students access to more than just knowledge and connections. It can provide unprecedented opportunities for real-world experiences and engagement that enhance knowledge development, skills retention and intercultural fluency. What’s more, eLearning platforms are expanding access to world-class education in developing countries, facilitating not only information transfer, but cross-border dialogue and knowledge sharing among students around the globe.
This interactive one-day summit organized by the Global Business School Network will explore how educators can apply innovations in technology to enable experiential learning and expand international partnerships.
Agenda
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee and Networking | |
10:30 - 10:45 | Introductions - Page Schindler Buchanan | Welcome and Icebreaker Activity |
10:45 – 11:00 | Experiential Learning for Workforce Readiness (or Why Talking Heads Aren't Enough) - Guy Pfeffermann | Join in on a discussion around the skills gap and why methods of "learning by doing" (action-learning, cases, simulations, interviews, etc.) are effective in preparing people for work in ways that "learning by telling" is not. Explore the value and the potential of online learning for reaching the new Sustainable Development Goals. |
11:00 – 11:30 | Leveraging Technologies for Learning by Doing (or What Your Kindergartner Will Use to Earn Her MBA) - Page Schindler Buchanan | Engage in a discussion on media psychology and how technologies can be used to teach in a transformative way. Look at what emerging technologies will allow in the near future. |
11:30 – 13:00 | Innovations in Experiential Learning Through Technology (or How to Take Technology to Schools) | Three discussions on how institutions use advancements in technology to enable access to more than just knowledge and connections, but also real engagement and experiences that can enhance their learning, as well intercultural fluency. The discussions will include what works in an institutional setting, what challenges the innovators face in logistics and learning design, and what outcomes they've seen from their programs. |
11:30 – 12:00 | Leveraging Technology Within an Institution - Erik Jentges | ETH Zurich uses technology to enhance students' learning environment and access to advanced ideas and trending issues. |
12:00 – 12:30 | A Virtual Intercultural Learning Experience - Soma Arora (virtual presentation) | IMT Ghaziabad participates in Xculture, an online consulting project competition and course for international business students that involves schools in over 40 countries. |
12:30 – 13:00 | Entrepreneurs Changing How Business Students Study Language - Jean-Philippe Hue and Pierre Roze | LingWeLink is a startup that connects business schools across borders to provide reciprocal student-to-student language learning support within the management education context. |
13:00 - 14:00 | Networking Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:30 | Learning Design Workshop (or The Part Where You Learn by Doing) - Mark Fenton-O'Creevy | Discussion of learning design and the idea that experience is not the same as learning. Following the discussion you will participate in a small-group activity to design a piece of experiential eLearning. |
15:30 - 16:00 | What did you come up with? Sharing and Final Thoughts - Mark Fenton-O'Creevy & Page Schindler Buchanan |
Target audience
- Faculty, administrators and program directors from business schools and universities around the world
- Education professionals interested in experiential education and management skills development
- Online education entrepreneurs focused on the business, management end entrepreneurship education markets
- International aid and government officials working to expand access to quality education and facilitate cross-border partnerships
Outcomes
The summit will feature interactive panel discussions with leading innovators in technology and in business education from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Participants will have the opportunity to meet in small working groups to share their experiences and develop ideas for using technology to enhance and expand their own educational programs.
GBSN Summit Participants will:
- Discover ways technology is enabling experiential education
- Explore how schools utilize tools and advancements in technology to develop partnerships across borders
- Engage with international peers to discuss what technology’s role is in developing workforce readiness
- Discuss how technology is enabling access and connections to emerging markets