Educational Innovation in Economics and Business

New benefits for EDiNEB Members!

The EDiNEB network offers a community for educators, researchers, trainers, corporate learning officers, or administrators interested in issues of educational innovation in the fields of business or economics. Membership brings a number of tangible benefits like discount registration rates for the Annual Meeting of the Network, or EDiNEB workshops. Currently EDiNEB is working on improving access to information sources such as leading journals on education and innovation. EDiNEB is proud to announce that we can offer an exclusive arrangement with IP Publishing Ltd. We are working on more arrangements with other publishers to give EDiNEB members access to journals.

In cooperation with IP Publishing we can offer EDiNEB members the following. EDiNEB members are entitled to free online access to all available electronic issues of the international journal Industry and Higher Education for a trial period until the end of 2005. 

We have some good news and some great news to report! The good news is that preparation of Education Innovation in Economics and Business X: Impact of Culture and Education on Learning Practices is well underway. The papers contained in this volume represent the very best from those submitted from the EDiNEB X Conference held in Salzburg, Austria. The great news is that this volume of the EDiNEB book series provides an engaging exploration of many leading-edge issues, ideas, and approaches for creating innovative and meaningful educational experiences for learners at many levels.

Do you want to take part in building a full engagement society where everybody counts and participates? Via Nova Academy is a new meeting place for people that want to build as a personal entrepreneur on a full engagement society in the Netherlands. Meet the VIA NOVA Network on Tuesday November 16, 2004, 6.15 pm at the ISVW Conference Hotel in Leusden, the Netherlands. Please note that the text is only available in Dutch. 

If your native language is not Dutch and you wish to receive more information on the VIA NOVA ACADEMY contact the director Thomas Thijssen (email: vianova@isvw.nl)

The purpose of this article is to give an overview of the curriculum transformation process at Helia, Helsinki Business Polytechnic. The article begins from why and how we began to implement problem-based learning. We focus on depicting how we create value through learning relationships and how we selected values to guide our work. We also discuss the integration of the contents, including projects and events. Finally, we emphasise the central role of assessment, which at Helia focuses not only on formal but on procedural knowledge as well. We conclude by briefly summarising the lessons learnt. The article is based on our recent book about the transformation of our international business programme into a PBL curriculum (Fagerholm and Helelä 2003).

Over the past decade, there have been countless calls to revise business education to better address technology advances, globalizing economies, and the heightened expectations of leading employers. Most notably, these dynamic forces have dramatically increased the demand for timely and relevant information to support business decision-making. Today, when one can instantaneously download complete, customized analyses from the Internet at little or no cost, business professionals must clearly demonstrate how their insights add value to their firm.

At the 10^th EDiNEB Conference in June in Maastricht we discussed ways in which we might promote the EDiNEB name and look at other ways in which we might network beyond the organisation.  Part of the value of the EDiNEB network is the ability to share educational experiences and to support and offer advice rather than evaluate or criticise  the work of other colleagues. With this in mind I would like to give some ideas on collaboration with another network.

Reviewing in pictures and words the workshop:
Getting a view on Education in Globalization by Active Learning
EDiNEB conference in Maastricht, June 2004