MSM launches Open Online Education Resource during Open Education Week

Open Education Week was held for the fifth time this year from 7 to 11 March. This initiative aims “to raise awareness about free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now”. It is coordinated by The Open Education Consortium, an association of institutions and organizations across the world who support and promote Open Education. Maastricht School of Management (MSM) took part in Open Education Week by organizing a free global webinar together with a number of our partners.

The topic was “Business School Education in emerging economies: What role for open online education?” MSM’s partner institutions who participated were ADA University Azerbaijan (Professor Mukhammadfoik Bakhadirov, Dr. Omar Farooq and Dr. Ismail Baydur), Sana’ University (Mr. Anwer Azzan), MSM Romania (Professor Radu Atanasiu) and Centrum Catolica Graduate Business School (Professor Juan Narro Lavi).

Within the framework of this event our partners have elaborated on their perspectives about online education and touched subjects like governmental obstacles for online education recognition or employability in online education.

During the webinar MSM Dean Professor Wim Naudé Naude announced the launch of a new open online education resource aimed at broadening understanding of MSM’s internationally accredited and highly ranked MBA programs. This new MOOC is a Mini-MBA that can be followed freely online. It organizes the essence of the MBA into three blocks, each containing 2-3 short courses each on respectively,The Organization, The Individual, and The Society and the Market.Professor Naudé also announced that MSM would be accelerating in coming months the provision of more open online education resources to support management – especially managers of small and micro-enterprises in developing countries that do not have access to time-intensive and expensive MBA degrees. Under the label Maastricht Open Online Education Resources, MSM will create a virtual online handbook of management concepts in the format of 2-minute video lectures that can be copies, shared and distributed.

To register for our Mini-MBA course please follow the link.