Capacity Building Workshop – Manchester 2024
Leveraging the latest simulations and technologies to teach soft skills
With the advancement of highly sophisticated VR headsets and simulations, an endless number of opportunities now exist in teaching some of the world’s most desired soft skills. From negotiation tactics to analysing one’s own body language and facial expressions, new technologies are allowing students to fully comprehend and dissect where they fall short in their soft skills.
- 12 April 2024 | 9:30 AM–5:00 PM
- Manchester
This workshop will invite business school leaders and professionals to take part in discovering some of the potential uses, advantages, and disadvantages to using a variety of existing and upcoming platforms. More importantly, the workshop will encourage discussion on how platforms can be seamlessly implemented into the programme curriculum to enhance the student learning experience.
You will learn how to:
- Existing and upcoming VR and simulation platforms that have the potential to revolutionise soft skills teaching
- Use cases of VR and simulation platforms in soft skills teaching and the resulting challenges, successes, and failures as experienced by business schools
- How to seamlessly integrate VR and simulation platforms into the programme curriculum
- Assessment methods of soft skills when applied against VR and simulation platforms
- Advantages and disadvantages of VR and simulation platforms vs. real-world interactions
Workshop programme
- –Registration and refreshments
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Introduction and overview
- Mellissa Oliver-Jolley (Membership Manager, AMBA & BGA)
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Enhancing Impact and Employability using a Business Simulation
- Jenni Rose (Senior Lecturer)
- Matt Davies ( Interim Director of MBA Programmes )
- Darren Sparkes (Associate Professor)
- –Networking break
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Bridging Theory and Practice Using AI Resistant Business Simulations
- Dr Dane Anderton (Director of ULMS MBA Programmes and Director of Studies Liverpool MBA, University of Liverpool)
- Leon Lloyd (Head of Sales International)
- Milo Hendriks (Director, Edumundo)
Meet the speakers
Dr Dane Anderton
Director of ULMS MBA Programmes and Director of Studies Liverpool MBA, University of Liverpool
ULMS
Darren Sparkes
Associate Professor
Warwick Business School
Dominic Finn
Teaching Fellow Management Science
University of Strathclyde
Jenni Rose
Senior Lecturer
Alliance Manchester Business School
Leon Lloyd
Head of Sales International
Edumundo
Matt Davies
Interim Director of MBA Programmes
Aston Business School
Milo Hendriks
Director, Edumundo
Mellissa Oliver-Jolley
Membership Manager, AMBA & BGA
Alliance Manchester Business School
Alliance Manchester Business School
Booth St West
Manchester
M15 6PB
