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Today MIT Sloan is ready to redefine management education. By charting new learning architectures, focusing on action and real-world practice, and inventing new ways to collaborate, we are helping our students to learn by innovating. Not only is such experience valuable because students apply what they have learned in the classroom, but also because by taking action, making things happen, and creating new solutions to problems, they develop as managers, change agents, and leaders.
What is the Practicing Management approach to education? Students prepare, act, and reflect on their experience, learning what it means to work with and through others to get things done. MIT students have always set out to change the world. With the new Practicing Management project, we're helping them to start changing the world while they're here.
How we are creating an MIT Sloan education in which every student can learn by innovating? In the spirit of learning by practicing, we are devising new experiments in conjunction with MIT Sloan students, faculty, and staff. Three linked efforts are already underway. Many of these pages are just initial drafts or working notes.
- "Preparation-action-reflection" framework. Links to research on learning. A (potential) vision for Practicing Management.
- Practicing Management Course. A new course based on the preparation-action-reflection-framework.
- Connecting this effort. Collecting ideas, connecting people and experiences, and enabling working to enable practicing management . Collaborating with students, staff, and faculty throughout MIT Sloan and the Institute to ensure that every student has many opportunities to make real progress in transforming the world through people, ideas, and action.
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- thoughout the curriculum and MIT Sloan experience.
Current work in progress
- modules: our collective list of things we'd like to offer students while they are here
- eventually, we'll have a page for each module with notes, readings, exercises, etc that we can all contribute to
- modules matrix: our mapping of the ways in which students get to learn about these things while they are here, lisiting modules in the Practicing Management course, Leadership, CDO workshops, communications/OP, etc
- practicing management rough notes and emerging ideas to share
- evolving course plan for Practicing Management
- Practicing Mangement vision