THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF INTRODUCING NEW TAUGHT PROGRAMMES

Colin Ashurst

The Newcastle Global MBA

Flexible Learning for 21st Century Business Leaders

Outline

• Global MBA: timeline– Initial idea: Sept 13– Approval: Aug 14– First students: Sept 15

• Lessons learned: challenges and opportunities

Creating a Vision start with the end in mind

An Exceptional GMBA Graduate…

• Will demonstrate an ability to…• Will come across to others as…• Will be respected by colleagues for…• Can be trusted by an employer/investor to…• Has the potential to…• Is renowned for…• Will be proud of their MBA because…

MBA Home Learn by Doing Teaching Team Alumni NetworkEmployer Partners Careers Coaching

The Project Approach. The best way to test out what you’re learning is to apply it at the earliest opportunity.

Your MBA projects will:• Cover all the key areas of successful

business practice;• Cover many different business sectors;• Be based on actual business issues and

challenges (not case studies!);• Allow you to draw on up-to-date,

relevant resources.

Teaching Team Mentors

Your teaching team make up a network of reflective learning coaches. Our leading thinkers are also skilled in guiding you through best project, learning and reflective practice. They will curate sound and grounded academic knowledge when you need it and will stimulate the on-line debate about emerging and relevant business issues.

Peer Network

You’ll join a dynamic on-line community comprised of fellow students, from across the Globe.

You’ll work in virtual teams and learn to contribute knowledge, ideas and feedback across the network.

Assessment

Test

Measuring Your Learning

A key component of the MBA is the record you keep of what you have done. You will discuss this regularly with your mentors to identify gaps and ways of filling them.

We assess through reflective narrative, interviews, peer feedback, personal career planning reviews and employer feedback.

There are two key areas that are assessed:1. Output: reports, presentations,

web pages, case studies you write & papers you author.

2. Process: how you and your team reach decisions, the choices you made and why, possible solutions explored and why. We also look for evidence of skills and attributes you have developed.

https://global.ncl.ac.uk/en/

Strategic Focus distinct by design

Learning in Context• Persistent business

challenges drive learning

• Skills are acquired in action based settings

• Students bring own business projects

• Educators unlock the learning

Coherence, Progression and Integration

Leadership Basecamp

Consulting Project

International Project

Entrepreneurial Project

Major Project (40 credits)

Year 1: Leadership Foundations Year 2: Leadership Horizons Year 3: Leadership Impact

LeadershipLaunch Pad (20)

Research Competences

Leadership Competences

International Curriculum

Contemporary and Pervasive Issues

Digital Literacy

Building the Team: excellence at programme level

Initial workshop

Building core team

Module leader engagement

Module Development a creative journey for a multi-disciplinary team

Roles

Team

DPD

Module Leader

Leadership Development

Active Learning

Using Technology

Engage Explore Evolve Evaluate Expand

Process: e4+1 Project Framework

Pushing the Boundaries creativity and innovation within an established framework

• Using the deadlines and deliverables• Consider constraints early• Focus on the student & the learning

Learning Outcomes: Global MBA

Outcomes: The graduate of Newcastle University Business School Global MBA:

A1) Demonstrate disciplinary competence by drawing on a critical understanding of relevant business disciplines and awareness of current issues to explore and clarify complex problematic situations

B1) Applies relevant research methods to develop understanding in complex problematic situations.

C1) Has the ability to take on a completely new and unexpected situation and do something with it.

C2) Can go beyond analysis and strategy to work with others to make things happen.

D1) Has the ability to learn and develop by reflecting on and in action.

D2) Shares their knowledge with colleagues, team and organisation to develop their ability to make a difference.

D3) Has developed as a management, leadership and business professional with integrity, ethical awareness, a global perspective, confidence in what they know and insight into what they do not know.

Aim: Business leaders of the 21st Century are agents of change, working collaboratively to make a positive and lasting impact on the world.

Pushing the Boundaries creativity and innovation within an established framework

• Using the deadlines and deliverables• Consider constraints early• Focus on the student & the learning• Programme specification as a core document• Maintaining the innovation after approval

In Summary

1. Creating a Vision: start with the end in mind2. Strategic Focus: distinct by design3. Building the Team: excellence at programme

level4. Module Development: a creative journey for

a multi-disciplinary team5. Pushing the Boundaries: creativity and

innovation within an established framework

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