Managing change in academic curricula, both in content and procedure, will be among the major challenges faced by educators in the 21st century. Post secondary school curriculum revisions take an average of five years to complete. Assuming these curricula are not revised again for another five to ten years, then the information passed on to the students is not keeping pace with our rapidly-changing world. Shorter revision cycles are not enough, though. Innovations in the material taught and the way it is communicated must also occur. Many schools and universities are implementing various levels of change in their respective programs. Innovation in Professional Education presents the authors' particular situation in hope that others will learn from their overall experiences.
This book chronicles the Weatherhead School of Management's 10-year restructuring of its MBA program. Throughout the book, the authors provide specific designs, methods and procedures to conduct outcome studies and to examine the impact of old and new MBA programs, applying the data collected from the Kolb Learning Style Inventory, the Kolb Adaptive Style Inventory and the Kolb Learning Skills Profile.
