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Date & Time:

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 | 9:00am EDT

Description:

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, MIT, like all universities and colleges around the world, was tasked with determining if and how students would begin the fall semester. MIT sloan ultimately decided that the educational experience will be a “hybrid” curriculum consisting of the three main instructional models: fully remote, in person, and hyflex (a session in which some students are participating in person and some are participating remotely.

Dean Ezra Zuckerman Sivan will discuss the different considerations and factors that played a role in the curriculum design and the school’s decision to provide students with a safe and flexible learning environment.

Date:

25^th July 2020

Description:

This is the 7th Edition of Confluence 2020 organized by IFIM Business School, Bengaluru, India.

Theme: How Higher Education Institutions can reboot the Economy?

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the social, economic, geopolitical, business and learning environments. It has thrown new challenges to the well-established norms of earning a livelihood, interacting with friends and family, interacting at the workplace, and learning at schools and colleges. Countries, States, Business establishments and institutions of learning have been forced to adopt new ways of working, learning and delivering their respective obligations. This has dramatically impacted the normal. Supply chains across commodities, products and human resources are decimated and need to be re-invented. The Coronavirus has thrown a challenge to humankind and we must once prove our resilience. 

The future of every economy is determined by the quality of the new generation that it produces. This new generation has been conventionally trained and educated by a learning ecosystem consisting of pre-schools, schools, and higher education institutes. The new generation is further mentored, coached, and developed by the industry and society to don the role of business and social leaders who eventually then drive the future of the economy. 

The conventional education system has been hit hard by this pandemic. Academia has been rattled and is desperately seeking quick and easy solutions. 

It is time for the Organizations, Academic body, Social Influencers, and Industry leaders to pause and apply their minds to answer the following emerging questions. 

• Is this the end of classroom teaching and online learning pave way for resurrecting the economy and then sustain it thereon? 
• The traditional and established experiential learning pedagogies such as internships and immersions are being threatened. Do we need to reinvent them? 
• Placement cycles which were the feeders of trained human resources are losing steam as the credibility of offers is at stake and the traditional campus interviews are becoming inconvenient. Do we need to find a new model? 
• Will the legacy formulae of ROI cost of education/Placement Packages continue to be the normal? 
• Are such lockdowns & social distancing here to stay, if yes do we need to train and educate our students differently? 

These questions need to be thought through, debated intensely, and answered thoughtfully to rebuild a learning ecosystem which will help address the new normal and reboot the economy which is now at a standstill.

Audience:

• Chief Executive Officers /Chief Human Resource  
• Leader Campus Recruitment & Campus Recruiters 
• University Relations Team 
• Talent Acquisition & HR Professionals 
• Career Services Professional 
• Founders, Co-founder, and Entrepreneurs 
• Director, Head & Manager- Placement Officers/Chief Managers
• Chancellors & Vice Chancellors 
• Directors & Principals 
• Deans & Senior Faculty Members 
• Researchers 

Agenda:

Date & Time:

Monday, July 27, 2020
12:30-1:30 p.m. EDT

Description:

Join Kislaya Prasad, academic director of the Center for Global Business as he hosts Emmanuelle Ganne of the World Trade Organization to discuss the “Global Trade During COVID 19: WTO Response.” Topics to be discussed include how global trade has been impacted by the pandemic, WTO’s responses worldwide, tools it has to support the economic recovery, and how countries are thinking about the future of trade, through the lens of an expert from the WTO.

Speakers:

Emmanuelle Ganne is a senior analyst in the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO) where she leads WTO work on micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and blockchain and conducts research on MSMEs, global value chains, services, and digital technologies. She is the author of a recently published WTO book entitled “Can Blockchain Revolutionize International Trade?”. Prior to this, she held various positions at the WTO, including as counselor to Director-General Pascal Lamy, and in the Accessions Division where she assessed trade policies of governments wishing to join the WTO and advised them on how to improve their business environment. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as vice-president and managing director for Europe at the Allam Advisory Group (AAG), a team of former C-level executives and senior diplomats that specializes in helping businesses expand their operations globally. Ganne is a 2009 Yale World Fellow.