As you finalize your Academy plans we want to inform you of an Action Learning PDW developed and delivered by a cadre of schools integrating sustainability into MBA curriculum. Here are the details:
Action Learning: MBA Project Courses and the Paradox of Using Experiential Learning Pedagogy
Scheduled: Program Session #342; Saturday, Aug 4 2012 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: Sloan School of Business at MIT. Building E62, Room 233
This is a participatory workshop inviting teachers and scholars to share current and on-going development of action learning project based courses and management pedagogy. Our workshop will review established practices in developing teaching strategies and techniques for action learning courses. Workshop participants and attendees will explore a paradox in the traditional delivery of management education within many disciplines and find new opportunities for teacher/scholar/student collaboration. Within this experiential learning workshop, participants will uncover and reinforce why these courses matter to scholars and teachers in management education, business and society. The delivery of applied coursework with external corporate partners is a flourishing field with many delivery models for project-based courses. The development of action learning projects and whole courses typically generate complex questions regarding delivery of the course. This complexity escalates when projects are global in nature and deal with organizations or entities in emerging economies. Faculty and students need to consider the draw of the informal economy when preparing to work on these projects. Understanding the movement toward action learning will help management teachers and scholars collaborate across disciplines and develop a pedagogy that encourages learning beyond personal experiences, beliefs, and value systems. Attendees will be able to build networks, deepen insights into current and pressing issues in management education and provide an opportunity to share and enhance on-going project and course development.
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Directions from Hynes Convention Center to Sloan School using public transit Taxi 8 minutes – destination is 50 Memorial Drive Bus 19 minutes - Hynes Convention Center Station, Bus 1 toward Harvard Square, exit at memorial drive and walk east to the Sloan School Subway 26 minutes – Hynes Convention Center Station, take the green line towards Government Center, at Park Station stop, switch to the Red Line towards Alewife, at Kendall MIT stop, walk east on Main street, Right on Wadsworth, then left onto Memorial Drive.
Best Regards,
PDW Organizer: Robert Sroufe, on behalf of the Action Learning PDW Team: (Michellana Jester; MIT Sloan; Sinead O'Flanagan; Norwegian School of Economics; Diane Ramos; Duquesne U.; Michael V. Russo; U. of Oregon; Peter M. Senge; Society of Organizational Learning; and Anne White Harrington; U. of Michigan)
Robert Sroufe, Ph.D.
http://mba.sustainability.duq.edu/
Murrin Chair of Global Competitiveness
Beard Institute Director of Applied Sustainability Marketing and Supply Chain Department John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business
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