Publish at October 01 2020 Updated March 20 2024
Building a business takes time and planning. For some years now, however, there has been an event encouraging individuals to develop an idea for a new company in less than a weekend. These competitions, organized even virtually, generate a great deal of enthusiasm. Could management science faculties learn from them?
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The freedom to sit for better learning
A classroom is a teacher at the front of rows of desks where students are stationed, right? Yet the model is slowly changing among some teachers. Here, chairs are becoming Swiss balloons, sofas, lawn chairs, etc. As for the desks, some are communal and sometimes there are none at all. Welcome to the world of "flexible seating" where the classroom setting is becoming more flexible to allow for more active teaching.
The art of team decision-making
While most decisions are made alone, there are times and contexts when we need to confront our visions and solutions with others in order to solve a problem. How can we make effective decisions as a team?
Everything that revolves around educational facilities always seems to involve the interior. We're talking about classrooms, gymnasiums, libraries, cubicles, reading or study rooms, cafeterias and so on. And yet, the exterior also reveals beneficial qualities for teaching and education.
School telecollaboration: rich lessons for students
Remote collaboration in a school setting had to be developed during the covid-19 lockdown. Teachers have had to master many of the applications. Yet, these rapid experiments could have a beneficial effect on this generation that will have learned, from childhood, to collaborate without physical presence.
Rethinking cities from a child's point of view
Anyone who has been to or lives in a large city should ask themselves: when was the last time you saw children playing together? Ideally, a city would make more room for parks with greenery, play areas, walking areas and so on. Fortunately, more and more cities are looking into the phenomenon and reviewing their urban planning.
