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IBS-Moscow RANEPA shares experience of increasing the share of distant courses in its curriculum from 10% to 100% in a week's time. During Moscow authorities’ preemptive measures in keeping the COVID-19 from spreading, IBS-Moscow chose to be the first business school to close up on-campus offline education and temporary transition educational programs involving 750+ students and 150+ professors to online education, while insuring the quality of all supplementing processes.

Organizing full-time learning with online technology during the pandemic has posed challenges for educators in Kazakhstan and worldwide. The Eurasian Center for Economics and Law Research at the Narxoz University School of Law and Public Policy looked at the transition to online learning at Narxoz from the perspective of students and faculty.

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed higher education institutions online to ensure that effective learning continues. While technology can facilitate seamless migration of face-to-face learning to a virtual platform, accessibility to quality digital content is crucial, especially during the Movement Control Order (MCO). As the workplace is rapidly expanding beyond the lecture halls, online classroom delivery will become a new norm.

In a very short time, the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (UEHS) managed to shift all classes to the internet platform. In such a way, all students can continue their education. The challenge was enormous, as it required high mobilization of all administrative and academic staff. At the end of the day, the collective effort paid off. The students are satisfied, and the staff is gaining new valuable experience.

COVID-19 needn't be a horseman of the apocalypse in human history. In every crisis, there is both danger and opportunity. Global civic universities can become change agents in solving “wicked problems” of society, requiring a system approach, social agency and a different way of thinking. He waka eke noa=we are all in this together (Māori proverb).

The COVID-19 pandemic promptly corrected the plans of everyone in the world. In quarantine situation, when governments of the most countries recommended citizens to stay at home. Under such unusual conditions majority of business schools faced with a challenge how to organized study process without interruption and how not to lose clients, find a new ones and successfully adapt programs to total online learning? The KROK Business School team demonstrated ability to quickly navigate and change the format and transfer all existing programs to online mode, as well as to launch several innovative projects.

SKOLKOVO has transferred to the distance working regime taking care of health and safety of its employees: some programs are held in the online format and all internal meetings and seminars are conducted at Zoom platform. SKOLKOVO has also launched a virtual classroom which allows holding interactive events and educational programs for degree and corporate clients.

CEEMAN invites contributions from its members on their experience, challenges, discoveries, and reflections on adapting to the disruption caused by COVID-19, in order to share them with the network. Given the variety of institutional and regional contexts, CEEMAN members have unique stories to tell and to learn from each other, providing inspiration and valuable lessons to the international community.

We are glad to announce the launch of CEEMAN webinars on topics of interest for management educators. Starting with the first webinar by Nikos Mylonopoulos “Rapid Transition to Online Teaching” on 31 March, and by a director-cinematographer Dražen Štader on “Smartphone Videography” on 6 April, we invite more CEEMAN members to share their valuable experience on specific topics of interest that might help others with the know-how to address a challenge, solve a problem or do their job more effectively.

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