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What did we learn?

• Remarkable statements

• Intriguing questions

• Ideas and suggestions

• Agenda for action

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Remarkable statements

• ‘At Roffey Park we are looking for people who are extremely thirsty for learning about themselves’

• ‘if you are successful in managing your faculty, I congratulate you’

• ‘only when faculty has tenure, we want to get after them…and guide them’

• ‘if I don’t enter the classroom without being scared, that is the moment I will give up this job’

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Intriguing questions

• ‘What (e)-Business model will appear successful for executive education in the future?’

• ‘Do business schools need intermediaries for e-learning?’

• ‘How to encourage faculty to participate in executive programs and to take up new developments?’

• ‘How to organise the continuing dialogue with the corporate world?’

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Ideas and suggestions

On e-learning• Experiences

Students do not like to be lectured Students like to do things and to see results from their work; they

rather do than study Students are over burdened with study work It adds to prestige; students like the technology.

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Ideas and suggestions

On e-learning• Reasons for reluctant faculty

Often faculty is not supported in working with new technology Incentives for faculty to work with new technology are absent Senior faculty is unwilling to change old behavior and invest in

new curriculum (again no or little resources from faculty available)

For faculty there is little to win: new curriculum is more time consuming (requires daily attention to student questions).

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Ideas and suggestions

Conclusions: • We need to experiment with this new technology... we

cannot go around it…• a vision on how faculty needs to develop for the future

is required…• E-learning should support needs of faculty for

professional development...• Apart from hardware, significant investments in

humanware are required!

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Ideas and suggestions

On faculty development

• Organize Orientation Day for New Faculty• Provide personal coaching for young and senior faculty• Provide incentives at individual and group level

Reward system of universities traditionally not in favour of executive education

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Agenda for action

• Continue dialogue with corporate world

• Professional development

• Innovation beyond e-learning in MD

• Business models for EE in the future

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UNIVERSITEIT NYENRODE

• Castle Nyenrode 1270

• NOIB 1946

• Full university status 1982

• Start EMDC 1983

• Privatised 1992