Business schools in India to introduce curriculum on COVID-19. After the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, education has seen a transition from the traditional classroom learning to online. One such change that COVID brought is in course curriculum taught by B-schools in India.
Prime management colleges have decided to include courses and impacts of Coronavirus pandemic in their curriculum, said The IE in a report.
According to the report, IIHMR University has already started an online course on ‘vaccine economics for COVID- 19’ whereas IIM-Ahmedabad is teaching an elective on macroeconomics.
Implications and effects of coronavirus lockdown on GDP growth, monetary policies and fiscal policies are being analysed and discussed at several seminars. B-schools will be updating its classes for future managers preparing them on how to handle a crisis as huge as a pandemic.
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) across states have incorporated courses that allows better management of digital transformation. Digital transformations have been stimulated in the country due to the covid pandemic.
Since five centuries, IIM-A is having several electives course on health-tech products, delivery systems, as well as ‘Hitchhiker’s guide to business and economies, has now been made a part of COVID-19 components.
Similarly, IIM-B has started various online courses amidst COVID-19 pandemic, teaching students via healthcare senior leadership programmes, leading innovation in the digital economy, data to decisions management.
IIM-Udaipur is preparing to bring change in its teaching-learning module and therefore, has launched 18 online management programs. These programs can be found on Coursera Citing. Janat Shah, Director, IIM-Udaipur said that currently a one-year full-time MBA program in digital enterprise management is being offered by the institute. He added that the course will put extra focus on digital space as it is one field which cannot be overlooked.
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Besides this, a majority of B-schools have claimed an uptick in their executive programs with the prolonged pandemic giving a rise to an “appetite for learning”.
IIM-Bangalore’s chief programme officer, executive education programmes, Madan Mohan Raj stated that students want their skills and knowledge to be updated with changing times. Many learners opted for digital business models, digital marketing, AI, AI-driven strategy, strategy for the post-COVID world, making sense of the post-COVID world among others.