Over 130 participants from 33 countries around the world (Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Zimbabwe) attended the conference and discussed their experiences and practices related to the use of technology in management education.
The Deans and Directors Meeting on Thursday, 25 September discussed how business schools could leverage their education, marketing and internal processes with technology. Organized in a roundtable format and chaired by Prof. Witold Bielecki, Rector of Kozminski University, Poland, it featured presentations on the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning (Stephane Justeau, ESSCA School of Management) and to lever marketing and operations (Nikos Mylonopoulos, ALBA Graduate School at The American College of Greece), as well as insights from the recently conducted CEEMAN survey on the use of technology in its member institutions.
Prof. Arshad Ahmad, AVP, Teaching & Learning at McMaster University and STLHE President, 3M National Teaching Fellow, Canada opened the meeting with his keynote talk on “Is Technology Disrupting Management Education?”, and further contributed in the panel discussion on “Financial Implications vs Benefits of Investing in Technology” (together with Sergey Myasoedov, Franck Thomas, and Jorge Talavera) as well as masterfully chaired the 22nd CEEMAN Annual Conference the next day.
Prof. Ádám Török, Secretary-General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, talked about innovations and competition in higher education at the conference opening, while Andrei Villarroel (International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management, on the photo) shared his views on “Global Online Education Meets Global Online Work”. Contributions by Christodoulos Papaphotis, Microsoft CEE, Peter Roebben, K&H Bank Hungary, and Alexander Oganov, Uniweb Russia brought in a business perspective in a panel led by Janos Vecsenyi, EFER, while the international deans’ panel provided management schools’ viewpoints and experiences from Italy (Andrea Tracogna, MIB School of Management), Malaysia (Md. Zabid Abdul Rashid, UNIRAZAK University) and US (Danny Szpiro, Jack Welch Management Institute). In addition, the parallel workshops looked further into the challenges and opportunities for technology use in management education and shared some of the experiences and best practices in online and blended programs; MOOCs; gamification and simulations; and Learning Management Systems (LMS).
On Friday evening at the Conference Gala Dinner, the winners of the CEEMAN Case Writing Competition, organized in cooperation with Emerald Group Publishing, and the CEEMAN Champion Awards recipients were announced. Certificates were delivered also to new CEEMAN members and newly accredited school.
In the conference coffee breaks, the participants had a chance to interact with international publishers and exhibitors, including Emerald Group Publishing, Pearson, Greenleaf Publishing, The Case Centre, Peregrine Academic Services, Turning Technologies, and VLN Media.
Other conference side events included information session on CEEMAN International Quality Accreditation (IQA), CEEMAN Annual Meeting, and, for the first time, individual Dean2Dean advisory meetings, while on Saturday ESSCA School of Management organized a sightseeing program around the main sights of Budapest and hosted lunch at its premises.
Speakers’ presentations are available at www.ceeman.org/conference, while the videos and conference proceedings will be published by the end of the year.