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From Teaching to Competence Development in Executive Education : Achieving Educational Innovations at Programme Level
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2013-08-26
Author(s)
Abstract
Many traditional learning organisations such as business schools still focus on "delivering" knowledge and understand learning as an input-activity through teaching. These organisations have received extensive criticism for their executive education results in the last few years. Regarding standard programmes in executive education, we can see that there is a gap between offered learning programmes and required outcome-orientation. This is caused by changing demands and needs in the current changes within society. Parallel to this, a new understanding of sustainable learning and competence has developed. Traditional formal classroom learning cannot fit these needs and demands anymore.
Instead, informal learning contexts are becoming more and more important to develop competences needed today. Caused by societal changes and the need to deal with constant uncertainty, as well as dynamics and complexity, means that knowledge coming from experiences is important and business schools need to facilitate the learning process in this sense. But they are still focusing on one-off point-of-learning experiences.
Considering these aspects, business schools need to base their organizational thinking on this learning paradigm shift and establish the link to informal learning settings to facilitate competence development in a holistic and sustainable way. Doing this can be seen as an educational innovation on the programme level of the business school. Such innovations could focus on new educational and/or learning aims as well as new ways to reach those aims.
The outlined situation leads to the following questions for the roundtable session: How can learning and teaching innovations be implemented on the programme level especially in this organizational context? How would these innovations impact the value chain of the supply of learning programmes? How do they impact organisational culture and structures? And in general, how can an organisation ensure renewal when needed instead of just constantly optimizing programmes?
Instead, informal learning contexts are becoming more and more important to develop competences needed today. Caused by societal changes and the need to deal with constant uncertainty, as well as dynamics and complexity, means that knowledge coming from experiences is important and business schools need to facilitate the learning process in this sense. But they are still focusing on one-off point-of-learning experiences.
Considering these aspects, business schools need to base their organizational thinking on this learning paradigm shift and establish the link to informal learning settings to facilitate competence development in a holistic and sustainable way. Doing this can be seen as an educational innovation on the programme level of the business school. Such innovations could focus on new educational and/or learning aims as well as new ways to reach those aims.
The outlined situation leads to the following questions for the roundtable session: How can learning and teaching innovations be implemented on the programme level especially in this organizational context? How would these innovations impact the value chain of the supply of learning programmes? How do they impact organisational culture and structures? And in general, how can an organisation ensure renewal when needed instead of just constantly optimizing programmes?
Language
English
Keywords
Educational Management
Business Schools
Executive Education
Learning
Teaching
Competence Development
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
Publisher place
Leuven
Start page
4
Event Title
JURE 2013: Preconference of the 15th Biennial EARLI Conference
Event Location
München
Event Date
26.-27.08.2013
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
225462