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“ Executive courses must impart contextualised learning and high-impact and applied knowledge where new skill sets and mindsets are needed to adapt to a postpandemic world ”
Mariana Amatullo Academic Dean for Continuing and professional Education , The New School
INSEAD San Francisco that they are getting the highest quality opportunities no matter the format offered , they are open to them .”
It ’ s a similar story at New Yorkheadquartered The New School , whose programs focus on ‘ design-led executive education for transformative leaders ’.
“ For many executives , learning occurs at the frontline and ‘ on the job ,” says Mariana Amatullo , Academic Dean for Continuing and professional Education , explaining how immersive opportunities that use many sensory stimuli to practice a new skill , prototype an idea , and collaborate with a cohort of peers , has traditionally been a focus of on-site programs .
But post-pandemic , there is now a new level of digital literacy and acceptance of digital learning in the executive space , she says . “ While the executive education classroom has been an early adaptor of technology , we can safely say that since the pandemic , we see in our executive learners , a new ease in integrating a variety of platforms as part of their learning .”
The New School now offers various delivery pathways , with some of its global programs for professionals following a hybrid sequence . As well as in-person global residences , students “ welcome that an essential part of their team-building work also occurs ‘ live online ’ and via asynchronous modules that can fit within their busy schedules ,” says Mariana .
Similarly blended , Wharton ’ s brand-new 22 month-long Global EMBA comprises 75 % online and 25 % in-person learning .
For HEC Paris , which ranks 11th worldwide for its MBA , and which has seen a surge in demand for its executive courses post-pandemic , networking faceto-face is a key added value in its top management programs . businesschief . com 113