Written by: NANA SHIBATA Published by: NIKKEI Asian Review MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Tokyo's Shizenkan University, a graduate school, is opening a Center for Sustainability and Innovation after August this year. The business-focused college will offer two courses targeting executives in the private and public sectors. One of the courses is aimed at teaching … [Read more...]
The Real Threat to Business Schools from Artificial Intelligence
Written by: Anne Trumbore Published by: Knowledge@Wharton MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Artificial intelligence (AI) will change the way we learn and work in the near future. Nearly 400 million workers globally will change their occupations in the next 10 years, and business schools are uniquely situated to respond to the shifts coming to the future of work. However, a … [Read more...]
Preparing for Emergency Online Teaching
Written by: Beth McMurtrie Published by: The Chronicle of Higher Education MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: When Clemson University held an online-teaching day last August, closing the campus and requiring instructors to teach online, a pandemic was not uppermost on people’s minds. But the South Carolina institution did want to ensure that all of its 2,000-plus faculty … [Read more...]
Coronavirus School Closures Expose Digital Haves and Have-Nots
Written by: Julie Jargon Published by: Wall Street Journal MBA News Digest Comment: This article focuses on K-12. But, the issues discussed likely apply to Higher Ed programs and students. Extracted Content: The ability of schools across the country to hold classes remotely is being tested as more close in an effort to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Also being tested: the … [Read more...]
Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start
Written by: Michelle D. Miller Published by: The Chronicle of Higher Education MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The coronavirus has colleges and universities swinging into action to move courses online. In the coming weeks, we’ll find out just how prepared (or not) academe is to do this on a large scale. Those of us in online teaching and educational technology have moved … [Read more...]
Penn State adds new areas of study to its top-10-ranked online MBA
Written by: Penn State Published by: Penn State News MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Penn State has expanded its highly ranked online MBA program to include six new areas of study, a move aimed at giving today’s business professionals a chance to shape their graduate education to their career goals and diversify their skill sets. Students in the Penn State Online MBA can … [Read more...]