{"id":66626,"date":"2019-03-23T21:23:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T01:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=66626"},"modified":"2019-03-24T12:34:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T16:34:59","slug":"hbs-online-why-harvard-business-schools-digital-rebrand-is-big-news-for-online-learning-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/03\/23\/hbs-online-why-harvard-business-schools-digital-rebrand-is-big-news-for-online-learning-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"HBS Online: Why Harvard Business School’s digital rebrand is big news for online learning [Murray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

HBS Online: Why Harvard Business School’s digital rebrand is big news for online learning<\/strong><\/a> — from businessbecause.com by Seb Murray
\nName change from HBX to Harvard Business School Online symbolizes a maturing market. We speak to Patrick Mullane, executive director of HBS Online, to find out more<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

At first glance, it may have seemed like an inconsequential name change:\u00a0Harvard Business School<\/a>\u2019s digital learning platform HBX would be called HBS Online.<\/p>\n

But commentators have billed the recent rebrand as having the potential for a big impact on online education. For one, the makeover could help to further legitimize the market.<\/p>\n

Online learning was initially considered second-rate to campus study, due to concerns about teaching quality and interactivity online. Nitin Nohria, the dean of HBS, saying in 2010 that the school would never go online in his lifetime, appeared to confirm the scepticism.<\/p>\n

But he has since\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0he ‘misjudged the potential of online education’ and is…<\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nThis is very old hat…but those who haven’t taught online should not judge online teaching and learning. If I gave you the writeups from my students from a class that I have taught in both a face-to-face format as well as in an online format — where I ask them what they learned during the class — I swear that you could not tell which documents represented those courses taught online vs. those taught face-to-face. I guarantee it. So as the saying goes…don’t judge it if you haven’t tried it.
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Oh…and by the way, many of the innovations in teaching and learning are happening in the digital\/virtual realm. Not all, but many. And we haven’t seen anything yet.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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