Olga Dergunova, Deputy President and Chairman of VTB Bank Management Board, GSOM SPbU Director, and Igor Remorenko, Moscow City University Rector, met at GSOM SPbU Mikhailovskaya Dacha campus to discuss new learning formats and implementation of advanced technologies in the learning process. Heads of GSOM SPbU strategic development areas and MCU vice-rectors took part in the event.

MCU executives were eager to find out more about how GSOM SPbU developed the methods of teaching in a hybrid environment, including the difference between a teacher's tasks in hybrid vs. in standard format and the benefits of hybrid format. Olga Alkanova, Senior Lecturer at the Marketing Department, Head of the Teaching Excellence Lab in Business Education of GSOM SPbU, thoroughly answered all the questions. She talked about how up-to-date technologies, when applied correctly, make learning more effective. The Business School's experiments appeared to be so successful, that today it is planned to scale this experience for other educational programs of Saint Petersburg University. Also, GSOM SPbU experts became members of the task group "Hybrid Format Teaching Methods" of the Federal Educational and Methodological Association for the integrated group of programs 38.00.00 "Economics and Management".

Apart from Bachelor and Master programs, hybrid format is in demand at executive education programs, because it allows the students who cannot attend classes to stay involved. Thanks to hybrid format, in 2023 more students will be able to participate in the Management of the Future conference held by GSOM SPbU.

Olga Dergunova invited colleagues from MCU to take part in the arrangement of the international Summer School for state and corporate university faculty and leaders to exchange experience in application of hybrid format teaching methods. MCU researchers were offered to speak at the annual Pashkus Readings, a GSOM SPbU research event, about the way young people perceive information. It was decided to continue cooperation on the development of hybrid format.

 

In 2021-2022 the team of experts from GSOM SPbU, MCU and VTB Bank conducted a joint research on how hybrid format is applied at educational institutions in Russia and around the world. The results are presented in the report "Hybrid Learning at the Universities Around the World".

Up-to-date technology implementation in the learning process is an important area of GSOM SPbU activity. Yuriy Ekimov, GSOM SPbU IT Director, shared that it is planned to adopt a new LMS for the main programs. Today OWL LMS, the new digital platform, is applied at the Business School''s executive education programs: MBA and EMBA, corporate and online programs. GSOM SPbU staff is going to be trained to use the new technology. The platform not only facilitates the interaction between lecturers and students, but also allows to collect, analyze and make recommendations on the enhancement of courses based on the obtained data.