2017

Educational innovation and international culture

What is a class? How can we determine, according to this or that course, the quality or the obsolescence of a format? These questions are naturally at the heart of the reflections of Audencia Business School, whose main hallmarks are pedagogical innovation and the production of collaborative systems, designed on the basis of an ethical and responsible approach. Daniel Evans, Director of Programs, chooses trust and openness as a common theme: “We want to give students the means to become responsible so that they can become active participants in creating courses. We must trust them and offer them a flexible framework in which they can find, guided by their teachers, formats that are new and meaningful. I am convinced that trust is a very good vector of innovation and that new pedagogical approaches can result. Digital today gives us greater freedom of action but its basis is a contract of confidence between the students and the institution. We also need to integrate our graduates more in that dynamic. They are in the companies, they are at work in them everyday and have a lot of things to tell us.” This welcoming, collaborative approach must also embrace another form of openness, of international scope and scale: “We promote a very international learning culture that already reaches 30% of our students. We must go further. Leaving our comfort zone, confronting our approaches with new models will enrich each person’s thinking and ultimately be of benefit to one and all.”