Online Learning Community
Join EFMD's international community of online learning practitioners to learn and exchange about your online strategy, design, operations and quality assurance
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Online learning, deployed at an unprecedented scale in the aftermath of the pandemic, offers many opportunities. Curated programme design, forward-looking experiential learning, and diversity and inclusiveness are part of an online experience. Simultaneously, students' engagement and assessment, peripheral learning, and quality assurance, pose challenges to online programmes and courses.
Whether you are venturing into the online, blended or hybrid teaching and learning, or looking into mastering your online design, operations or quality assurance processes, EFMD offers a portfolio of interactive events and services to accompany you on this journey.
EFMD’s offer spans webinars, seminars, professional development programmes and immersive events.
A trusted community of international experts and peers will help you navigate the online teaching and learning landscape.
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Online Teaching Academy
Going beyond remote teaching to master online education
Digital technologies are transforming education in an unprecedented way. As online teaching and learning become indispensable, we discover new challenges and opportunities.
The Online Teaching Academy is a certified professional development programme that offers participants the theoretical and practical tools to design effective online or blended courses. Delving into learning-design principles, best practices and trends of online education, faculty members and researchers train to become effective online instructors and create engaging learning experiences that go beyond video conferencing.
Facilitated by world-leading experts in online course design, this highly interactive hybrid programme covers all aspects of online teaching with the aim of delivering high-quality online management education.
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Rethinking Business Education
Building your online strategy
This professional development programme helps you make real progress in developing your institution’s sustainable online education strategy.
A group of experts and a supportive community will guide you through this complex process.
You will get access to a range of tools, including an institutional questionnaire, a learning journal to systematically capture your thoughts, and a digital presentation template that you can use to develop a showcase presentation.
Exchange of experiences, ideas, and problem-solving using action learning principles, lie at the core of this programme, which is addressed to deans, executive directors and learning experience managers.
Upon completion of the workshop, you will receive an EFMD badge.
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EFMD Online Course Certification System (EOCCS)
EOCCS provides business and management courses run online with a quality-driven international certification system, firmly embedded in the general philosophy of EFMD accreditations: internationalisation, practical relevance and quality improvement.
Learning design
Institutional sustainability
Quality improvement
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EOCCS Webinars
Keep up-to-date with online education trends
EOCCS community webinars bring topical updates and discussions regularly, sourcing from diverse expert opinions and fostering an exchange of views.
Join us in the series of engaging virtual discussions about hot topics in online learning. Attendance is normally free, but requires prior registration.
Anyone with an interest in online education is welcome to join the webinars.
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Gamification of Learning
Designing an engaging classroom experience
- Best practices and useful tips and tricks from experts are shared in a collaborative environment.
- This five-week online programme welcomes programme directors, instructional designers as well as faculty interested in building an engaging learning experience for their learners.
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A look-back at the 2018 EOCCS Online Learning Community Symposium

EOCCS Learning Community Symposium
Trends and quality in online delivery
From digital badges to boot camps, the demand and offer for online learning initiatives have rocketed. As we rely more on remote education, we discover the challenges and opportunities of delivering effective and engaging experiences on digital platforms.
The EOCCS Symposium offers insights into the alternative models of education that have emerged in the digital age. It gathers business schools, companies and other education providers to exchange good practices and explore ways of upgrading the quality of online programmes and upskilling those involved in online education.
The symposium is delivered in an innovative hybrid format that extends participation opportunities and transforms theory into practice.
For additional insights into online learning, EOCCS certification and previous symposiums, follow the conversation here.
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