Innovative Curriculum Conference

Growing Graduate Enrollment: Challenges and Opportunities to Grow the Graduate Pipeline Enrollment in graduate business programs continues to be a challenge for many business schools. This session will start with a brief overview of current trends in graduate school enrollment and will be followed by interactive breakout sessions to discuss best practices and ideas for increasing graduate program enrollment around specific themes including: 1) Increasing program interest and applications, 2) Managing the application process and yield, 3) Exploring innovative program portfolios.

Podium's Global Technology Program: The Intersection of Technical, Cultural, and Practical Skills "Podium Education is the world’s leading experiential learning company. Over the past four years, they’ve developed The Global Tech Experience (GTX), an innovative, fully digital program that delivers a 6-credit experience enabling undergraduate business students to work on projects from organizations like SpaceX, The Grammy’s & Netflix over a digital platform. HPU has seen incredible interest from students looking to work directly with companies while building their intercultural skills and work-simulated experience. In this session you’ll hear from HPU’s Dean, Mark Rosenbaum, and Podium Education’s Founder, Chris Parrish, on how The Global Tech Experience unlocks access to experiential and global learning and drives revenue for university partners at scale."

To Innovate or not to Innovate – that is the question We will host a facilitated discussion on whether people are sticking with the online innovations developed during the Covid pandemic or it is back to teaching practice as before March 2020

Learners in business schools are expected to develop technology competency and ability to interpret and communicate data. This session will share how curriculum mapping can be leveraged to plan gradual competency development and incorporate technology and analytics throughout business curriculum. We will discuss two models of analytics and technology integration across the business curriculum to prepare undergraduate and graduate students for competitive careers.

This session will discuss revitalizing assurance of learning to broaden and deepen faculty engagement.

Industry Session

Learners require a new level of career readiness to thrive in today’s accelerating technology and economic change. They need your help to strengthen self-efficacy and self-knowledge, foundations for other career competencies. In this session, learn about 2 AACSB institutions where professional development faculty are using Career Key to teach lifelong self-development skills.

Partnering to progress the exploration of transdisciplinary education, double-degrees, majors, and integration of core digital skills to support a global generation of business professionals.

Join us for insightful and inspiring 7-minute TED talk-style presentations on how others are integrating sustainability into curriculum.

"Partnering with your Center for Teaching Excellence in support of innovation across the Curriculum." Join the Metropolitan Business School Affinity Group for a panel discussion on ways Teaching and Learning Centers support innovation across business curriculum and beyond. Topics include examples of institutional-level projects supporting educational outcomes, pedogeological innovations, and ways Centers for Teaching and Learning partner with schools of business.

This session will delve into the intersection of generative artificial intelligence and assessment practices in higher education. Given the challenges that develop from easy access to AI-generated essays from applications such as ChatGPT, we will address the importance of assessment design. We will discuss how to design an exam for or against ChatGPT, as well as the implications of allowing, disallowing, or controlling its use. Through examples and case studies, participants will gain a better understanding of the current state and future prospects of AI-assisted assessment in higher education.

Business schools are needing to pivot to meet an evolving workplace—expectations and competencies required are changing rapidly. This session will share best practices for developing curriculum that can evolve and respond quickly to an everchanging geopolitical environment.

What’s required to ensure a culture of mental wellness on campus? Each school has a unique climate and culture—what do your business school learners need to thrive in the classroom? This session will explore how can you bring this environment to life and continuously support it by the use of meditation.

This session will explore how schools can strike the right balance of technical skill development with whole-person development. Foundational technical skills are still valuable, but students are lacking skills that can set them apart, such as critical thinking, practicing high-level judgement, and successfully navigating through social dynamics. How can b-schools create curriculum that balances and develops the two?