UNICON study: Mobile learning offers opportunities for growth in the Executive Education Programs Around the World
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Minneapolis, Minnesota (Nasdaq) 12 January 2012
A new study of UNICON (International University Consortium for Executive Education) shows that many have business schools around the world the opportunity to provide untapped innovative learning programs, continuing education provided by mobile technology. UNICON report “Going Mobile Executive Education on the research of UNICON Ashridge Business School is based in the UK Member led. We analyze the impact of mobile technologies in the landscape of learning in executive education worldwide. The report focuses on mobile learning, and how mobile technologies – smart phones, PDAs (personal digital assistants), laptops and personal media players – to support and expand the scope of teaching and learning
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The report notes that some education providers are adopting mobile learning and the development of new approaches to learning. Included in the report are detailed case studies: Abilene Christian University (USA), The Open University (UK), Ashridge Business School (UK), Harvard Business School (USA), Seton Hill University (USA), IMD (Switzerland), Pill EPIC (UK), and the ability of the University of Cape Town (South Africa).
While research highlights examples of innovative applications of mobile learning in companies, schools, universities and the private sector worldwide to the conclusion that would be the executive education providers today much more to maximize the enormous potential of mobile devices for learning.
“The Future of Executive Education at the choice and adjustment. Our study shows that providers should not wait to solve for the industry,” said President Bill UNICON Shedden, who is also director of the Custom Executive Education at Cranfield School of Management in Bedfordshire, England. “Our latest State of the Industry survey also found that while many executive education providers need to move cautiously experimenting with the technology and started – in many cases -. Take more initiative, technologies, customers demand and expect other words, seeks Executive Customer Education on university providers to help them understand what the new technology is important.
“The global nature of business and the increasing ability of powerful mobile devices means that the introduction of new technologies in learning important to continue to win customers in the competitive market for executive education,” continued Shedden. “Unicon is to help its members to learn more about how to effectively devoted to introducing new technologies and the industry leader in executive education programs at universities around the world.”
mobile technology can help managers to support pre-and post-course, and the latest in mobile learning applications to expand access to rich-media education. It also provides an opportunity for the participants are connected to each other as professional resources, after a program ends. Other advantages of mobile learning are identified in the report:
“Enough” learning – very easy to digest applied learning for busy executives.
‘Just-in-time “learning – learning practical, flexible and relevant in the moment that learning requires.
“Just-for-me learning – learning to be accessed through mobile devices in many different ways that there are ways to get many different types of learners means.
Mobile devices can be used to facilitate cooperation. SMS reminders, forums for the exchange of knowledge and “a question” forum to facilitate and enhance interaction between participants and lecturers. Research Fellow
Ashridge Business School and coauthor of UNICON Report, said Dr. Carina Paine Schofield: “Change: Advances in mobile technologies and high penetration of mobile phones the way that learning becomes accepted, and in educational contexts, and has more .. of e-learning with a mobile phone mobile learning offers easy access to learning materials that students can be productive with your time there party makes of Executive Education learning to serve in various formats – audio, video or text – to individual learning styles suit ”
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Ashridge Business School is one of the leading providers of executive education to an online learning resource to be established. Their online learning platform, virtual Ashridge, allows students special interests at home and choose a style of learning that your personality fits, without the overhead of information: Some people want to hear or read an audio file or text, while others want to a to participate in online discussion.
Director of Learning Services at Ashridge Business School, Tony Sheehan said “Mobile learning a great opportunity to learn the action provides the introduction. It allows people to executive education at a time when they connect the most. reasonable and in ways that support the current business challenges, students can no longer depend on the class, such as mobile devices to connect students in moments of reflection can be – a long train ride, a daily commute. – If the mind alert and open to new Ideas
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“In these times of austerity, mobile tutorials and e-learning also provides an economical and efficient time to train staff to avoid travel costs and accommodation off-site courses,” said Sheehan.
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Founded in 1972 as an association executive education program has UNICON from being an informal group of common interest in an incorporated nonprofit organization that sponsored the development of the area went to the consortium of university business education from the school. The membership of nearly 100 educational institutions in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
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is committed to the principle that the executive branch to provide academic training, a combination of thought leadership at the highest level of rigor, mastery learning environments and practical application that can not be replicated by non-academics suppliers.
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sponsors and conducts research, to the forefront of this unique value to the training of school leaders. It also provides knowledge of the industry / business and networking opportunities for its members through conferences, workshops, research, benchmarking website, newsletter, jobs, discussion boards, forums and other activities.
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The report, Going mobile in executive education. how mobile technologies are changing the learning executive, was written by Dr. Carina Paine Schofield, Trudi West and Emily Taylor, Ashridge Business School
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