Welcome
Program outline
    Target group
    Guided self-study
    Residential weeks
Curriculum
    Core program
    Business Administration program
    Thesis-writing modules
Schedule
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Teaching methodology

Most adults are glad to put their school days behind them, yet they are keen to learn and develop themselves. That’s why our courses are carefully designed to come as close as possible to informal learning, the spontaneous learning taking place in everyday life, whether at work or at home.

Learning never stops, not even during your sleep. It is fed by all kinds of information you receive or look for, consciously and unconsciously. To create an effective learning process it is essential to select the proper information and digest it in an optimum fashion.

From information to competence

Competences form a key factor in professional behavior. A competence is a complex mix of knowledge, beliefs and skills. The Global Distance MBA considers learning as the process of transforming information into competences. In this transformation process, at least three mindsets need to be activated:

Analytical mindset: the ability to combine information into meaningful patterns and to collect missing information if necessary
Reflective mindset: the ability to scrutinize relations between pieces of information and consequently combine these in alternative patterns, while at the same time allowing new types of information to come in
Collaborative mindset: the ability to exchange constructs of reality in order to discover personal biases and be open to new experiences.

Maximizing the ‘return on learning’

These three mindsets are complementary and their use has to be balanced. This is exactly what is achieved by the meticulous design of our courses. The Global Distance MBA program is developed in such a way as to maximize your ‘return on learning’ by providing optimum support in the process of growth in competences and professional behavior.