HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

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HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

• CARLA TISHLER
• DIRECTOR, PROGRAM INNOVATION
• Educational Technology Group
• NERCOMP 10/17/07

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Harvard Business School Educational Technology
Group

• ETG Twenty-four person department, part of
  larger IT organization
• --Designers look and feel, UI, user experience
• --Instructional technologists content
  expertise, pedagogy, technology
• --Client services partner with faculty and
  programs
• --Developers Java, Flex, Flash, html, xml, etc.
• --Producers multimedia, video, Web

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Audiences MBA, Executive Education

• MBA PROGRAM
• 900 students each year
• 12 required courses for first-year students
• 80 electives for second-year students
• EXEC ED
• 4 long programs
• 70 open enrollment courses annually
• 60 custom programs for Fortune 500 companies

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HBSs Educational Technology Group partners with
faculty to enhance content, enliven teaching and
learning, and amplify student learning before,
during, and after the classroom experience.
Action Learning Resources
Delivery/ Support Tools
Assessment tools
Games and Simulations
Tutorials
Learning Networks
Web-based multimedia
Online Accounting Quantitative Methods
Pre-matriculation
Virtual communities
Video
Course Platform ,iSites, Video Tools
Multimedia cases
Wikis Blogs
Animations
Beer Game, VC Game, PLD CapSim
Poll tool, Learning Path Tool
Strategy, Leading Change, Marketing Performance
Learning Nexus for knowledge sharing
GMP re-entry, Legacy Books, Newsletters
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Areas of Exploration

• SOCIAL NETWORKING
• VIRTUAL WORLDS
• DISTANCE LEARNING
• INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGIES

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