Guerrilla UX Design, Design Futures, Social Entrepreneurship and Project Leadership are the four programs launched in this intensive education format. The first program starts on March 4th.

By JOSÉ ÁNGEL DE LA PAZ | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL

EGADE Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey launched the new Online BootCamps, as part of its Alternative Learning program portfolio.

These bootcamps offer intensive, practical training in state-of-the-art areas, through weekly live Zoom sessions and activities on virtual reality and Design Thinking platforms, such as Virbela and Miro, explained Julien Depauw, Director of Academic Innovation at EGADE Business School.

These programs, he added, are taught with the competency-based learning model and in partnership with global experts who guide learners in the development of a project and prototype.

The new Online BootCamps are:

Guerrilla UX Design

• Objective: push ways of collaborating, learning, and challenging the status quo to the limit by resolving experience design challenges on digital platforms.
• Offered in collaboration with TCUX.
• Start date: March 4, 2021.
• Duration: 4 weeks (8-10 hours per week).

Design Futures

• Objective: learn how to use design processes, methods and artifacts to imagine alternative futures and develop better strategies.
• Offered in collaboration with Diagonal Studio.
• Start date: March 22, 2021.
• Duration: 4 weeks (8-10 hours per week).

Social Entrepreneurship

• Objective: learn to develop a solution to a social and/or environmental problem with a sustainable, scalable business model.
• Offered in collaboration with the Eugenio Garza Lagüera Entrepreneurship Institute.
• Start date: April 12, 2021.
• Duration: 4 weeks (8-10 hours per week).

Project Leadership:

• Objective: develop the necessary skills to lead projects based on the European PM² methodology and train to be a certification candidate.
• Offered in collaboration with PM² Alliance.
• Practical learning using LEGO sets.
• Start date: May 3, 2021.
• Duration: 6 weeks (6-8 hours per week).

“In EGADE Business School’s Alternative Learning, we understand that each of our learners is different, pursuing a personal objective and seeking a unique learning experience. With Online BootCamps, we want to offer the opportunity to achieve a specific new competency that can be reused at any time,” Depauw said.

The Online BootCamps can be acquired here. On enrolling, participants receive 10% off their first purchase of Online BootCamps or LiveOnLine.