Business Schools » Business School News » Article
WU Vienna: More interaction
Business Schools Bärbel Schwertfeger - 08.27.2008
Thanks to modern technology, participants of the Executive MBA Program at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien – WU) will be more integrated into the instruction.
Making this possible is the "clicker," a kind of remote control which enables professors to ask their students specific questions during instruction and evaluate the answers within seconds. Thus professors can immediately determine how many students correctly answered a question and consequently how many people understood the topic.
The participants profit from the interactive instruction and the immediate analysis of their knowledge. The system, which most Austrians know from the television show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," comes from Texas and is already in use at other renowned universities.
The part-time Executive MBA program lasts 14 months and is conducted in cooperation with the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. It will celebrate its ten-year anniversary in 2009. Participants study on three continents (China/India, Russia/Romania and the US) and receive two MBA degrees.
On average, they have over twelve years of work and management experience and are 36 years old. Roughly half the class is made up of international students. The WU Vienna is the only Austrian business school to be Equis-accredited.
Comments