UAE Business: Virtual reality to bring Insead Executive MBA learning to life – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Virtual reality to bring Insead Executive MBA learning to life – Gulf Digital News

Insead has revealed that virtual reality (VR) will be applied to enhance the learning experience for those enrolled in the school’s Global Executive Master of Business Administration (GEMBA) programme.

An immersive learning masterclass of Mission to Mars was introduced at the briefing to showcase the technology and highlight how it redefines the management and executive learning at Insead, the Business School for the World with a campus in Abu Dhabi.  

In this experience, participants ventured out to the red planet using VR headsets. They moved between the immersive journey and the classroom where they analysed and discussed the different events. This interactive, hands-on session offered the participants a deep learning experience on effective decision making in complex and ambiguous situations.

Insead launched its VR Immersive Learning Initiative pre-pandemic in 2019 to boost engagement, retention of knowledge and personalisation of learning. Today, more than 4,500  MBA and executive education participants have experienced VR as part of Insead programmes around the world, both remotely and in classrooms at its campuses in France, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi.

“After worldwide lockdown forced us to pivot from physical to all-online training, we immediately saw the potential for virtual reality to compensate for the