THE ADOPTION OF INNOVATION, PART III
The third and final article in our series titled “The
Adoption of Innovation: Online Learning Business Plans,
Strategies, Change Management and Leadership,” in which we
have reported on the business side of distance education.
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THE DIGITAL OPTIMIST
As the end of the year approaches, I typically reflect on
what I did not get a chance to write about in Educational
Pathways. Each year - now going on five years of writing and
publishing EdPath - I inevitably miss reporting on a good
number of very big issues that can be considered
transformative in the world of online teaching and learning
in higher education.
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EXECUTIVE MBA PROGRAM GEARED FOR MODERN-DAY BUSY
PROFESSIONALS
Both students and EMBA programs lose out when schools of
business refuse to convert more of their face-to-face
classes to a fully online modality. In short, lessening the
number of face-to-face classes, but not totally eliminating
them because they are, in fact, beneficial to students in
any EMBA program, could mean more enrollments. Apparently
there is one school of business that agrees with this notion
- the School of Management at the University of Texas at
Dallas offers a blended Global Leadership Executive MBA
Program (GLEMBA) that requires its students to meet
face-to-face for only six weekends (once each quarter), that
it calls “retreats,” over a period of 28 months.
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