Esade reopens its Madrid and Barcelona campuses and promotes a new hybrid educational model
Starting on Friday, June 12th, Esade will begin to progressively resume its in-person classes within the Executive Education programmes. For this, it will reopen its Madrid and Barcelona-Pedrables campuses, adopting the most rigorous health and safety measures and protocols thanks to a collaborative agreement signed with Hospital Clínic in Barcelona.
At the same time, Esade will continue to offer its online classes, fomenting a new hybrid educational model which provides students all the advantages of online learning while also making the most of in-person sessions. “Esade stands out for its own pedagogical methodology which it constantly innovates, as well as the academic excellence of its faculty body and its wager on the digital transformation of its educational model,” declared Koldo Echebarria, Esade Director General. “All this provides the student body a learning ecosystem inside and outside the classroom, resulting in a unique and transformative educational experience,” he added.
Esade has also opened registration for its July Summer School programme at its Barcelona-Pedralbes and Barcelona-Sant Cugat campuses, as well as the Youth and Leadership programme, #ChicasImparables, offered together with 50&50GL and the Confederation of Employers and Industries of Spain (CEOE). The latter is the first of its kind in Spain which aims to foment leadership amongst young, 15 to 18-year-old young women. The programme is offered in both Madrid and Barcelona.
A unique pedagogical innovation and digital transformation model
Esade’s digital education model opens up a series of technological possibilities which enables it to flexibly and fully adapt students’ educational experience and successfully provide in-person and online classes simultaneously and in a complementary fashion. Worth noting are the novel mechanisms to access knowledge, new channels for faculty and students to interact and applications to assess students’ knowledge and skills, amongst other features.
Esade’s technological maturity and its innovative spirit enabled it so successfully transition its in-person classes with 4,200 students to the e-learning format in just three days. Its investment in technology, digital content and education these last few years has resulted crucial for Esade, allowing its faculty and students to easily adapt to the new environment and meet the needs of today’s exceptional circumstances.
Esade’s wager on innovation and digital transformation provides students a unique educational experience, as demonstrated by its position in numerous globally recognised rankings.
