Riding The Wave

By Margaret Andrews. How is online executive education like surfing? According to UNICON, whose “Riding the Wave of Online Executive Education” workshop I’m attending this week, “The wave of online education has come crashing onto the shores of the Executive and Higher Education communities. The challenge ahead is to determine whether we will learn to ride the wave, watch the wave from the shore, or be swept under by it.” Much of the discussion in the sessions – and in the hallways – mimics what we read in the media about online education in general and about MOOCs, in particular. Read more...