By José Ángel de la Paz
The workforce is transforming with every step of technological advancement, as is the way in which we learn, work and develop, affirmed Ignacio de la Vega, during the XII Eduniversal World Convention “Towards transformation and creativity in a hyper-connected world”.
“As business schools, we need to view technology as a tool, rather than a learning outcome, in order to rise to our greatest challenge: the development of agile, collaborative, innovative talent,” said the dean of EGADE Business School and the Undergraduate Business School of Tecnológico de Monterrey.
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Plenary session with Professor Nathasorn Boontanorm from @sasinthailand and @Ignaveg from @egade
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At the event, Dean de la Vega participated in a plenary session called “Creativity through action learning”, where he shared with deans and directors of schools from all over the world how EGADE Business School and the School of Business are incorporating new, more flexible formats for action learning, thereby developing students’ capacity to remain current through independent and lifelong learning.
He mentioned the renovation of EGADE Business School’s portfolio with the launch of the EGADExEd MicroMasters, MBA Online and Master in Business Management programs. The latter, highly innovative program employs the blended learning methodology, which combines face-to-face and online sessions, workshops and bootcamps to strengthen students’ critical thinking, leadership and teamwork through participation in dynamic experiential and immersive activities.
He highlighted the School of Business’s implementation of the Educational Model TEC21, a comprehensive education experience grounded in challenge-based learning, allowing students to interact with their professors and the real business environment in order to develop the disciplinary and transversal competencies that will prepare them, from the very beginning of their degree program, to lead the way in job market opportunities.
Dean de la Vega went on to explain that, within the framework of this model, the company Coppel joined forces with the School as a national education partner to transfer business reality to the Tec Business classrooms. Through the Coppel challenge, approximately four thousand new students developed a situational diagnosis of the company and proposals for improving its business model.
The session in which Dean de la Vega participated was moderated by Nathasorn Boontanorm, Program Manager of Sasin School of Management. Other participants were Jean-Philippe Charrier, President and CEO of Shiseido Asia Pacific; Subramonia Sarma, Director of Action Learning, Asia School of Business; and Anastasia Zavodchikova, Executive Director of the City Business School, Russia.
During the convention, EGADE Business School received the award for the top business school in Mexico and Latin America, after the announcement of the Eduniversal Business School Ranking 2019 results.