IMTA 2016 participants who spent two weeks in Bled attending the program came from all over the world to improve their competences in various aspects of management education. Representatives of Austria, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Ireland (for the first time), Kazakhstan, Philippines (for the first time), Poland, Qatar (for the first time), Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia and Ukraine shared their questions, experiences, and dilemmas.
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The 2016 edition of the program included internationally renowned professors from the best business schools around the world: Prof. James C. Ellert, IMD, Switzerland and IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia (Academic Director of IMTA); Prof. Joe Pons, President of AXIOMA Marketing Consultants, Spain; Prof. J.B. Kassarjian, IMD, Switzerland and Babson College, USA; Prof. Krzysztof Obloj, School of Management at Warsaw University, and Kozminski University, Poland; prof. Tony Buono, Bentley University, USA and Prof. Arshad Ahmad, McMaster University, Canada. For the first time, the program also featured a guest contribution from Prof. Dietmar Sternad, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria - an accomplished case writer and case teacher, and himself a graduate of IMTA.
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Under the masterful guidance of IMTA faculty, the program helps the participants to enhance their teaching methodologies, materials and skills; provides valuable feedback on participants’ own teaching techniques; as well as shares some of the personal “tips and tricks” of the teacher’s profession. According to many alumni, IMTA was a major milestone in their teaching careers, and gave start to many new joint projects and lasting professional connections.
The IMTA Alumni network facilitates mutual communication and cooperation among its alumni and their institutions, while also serves as a platform through which CEEMAN continues providing support to management teachers in their personal, professional and institutional development. In the last years, IMTA has also welcomed participants from non-management disciplines, which proved to be an enriching experience.
The next edition of IMTA will take place in June 2017, early applications are encouraged (info@ceeman.org).
IMTA faculty say:
In most business schools, teaching skills are taken for granted, with little time or effort invested in training people in the kinds of skills that will help them to perform well in the classroom. IMTA strikes at the very core of a need that more and more business schools have and are beginning to recognize.
Joe Pons, IMTA faculty member, Spain
IMTA is a safe environment in which one can practice, debate with peers, and develop new levels of skills, as well as new attitudes for teaching.
Krzysztof Obłój, IMTA faculty member, Poland
Irrespective of your academic background, or your declared discipline, or the teaching approaches and preferences of your institution, IMTA will enrich your pedagogical tool-chest.
JB Kassarjian, IMTA faculty member, USA
IMTA 2016 participants say:
This was such a productive week, I met so many intelligent, knowledgeable people that made me think. I’m going to implement (or try to implement) all of this in my own teaching. Thank you so much!
Violetta Khoreva, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
I am humbled by the experience. I thought I knew how case teaching should be done before I came only to realize how ignorant I am. I can’t help to feel privilege and honor to have had the opportunity to learn from the faculty and from other participants.
Jenson Goh, National University of Singapore
Elite professors and elite academy. I am sure I am not going to be the same after this experience.
Irina Bilan, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania
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