University and Corporate Innovations
in Lifetime Learning

Forthcoming August 2007

Editors:
Charles Wankel, St. Johns University
Robert DeFillippi, Suffolk University

SUMMARY
This volume covers cutting edge theory and cases in lifelong learning in both corporate and higher educational contexts. It includes studies of both prestigious world-class executive education and programs of regional universities. Analysis of the experience of innovative efforts to provide management education transcending normal degree program structures in both advanced nations and developing ones is provided. Partnering of corporate universities with traditional ones is discussed as a means of helping 21st century firms to develop management know-how to fit changing needs and opportunities. Executive education programs are presented as laboratories in which curriculum innovations integrating adult learning theory with professional development can be nurtured. How executive education programs can be designed to create learning communities that foster learning mindsets is described. One frame-breaking approach described is that of arts-based management learning as an expressive means to generate innovative and stimulating continuing management education experiences. Another chapter presents and explains best practices in leadership development are presented from a study of top firms. How the capacity for creative lifelong learning can be developed in undergraduates through embedded assessments is reported. A chapter reports on the efforts to support the European Council by constructing Europe-wide lifelong management learning and its provision to participants of a toolbox of ideas, concepts, models and methods that can be usefully used to promote lifelong learning.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction to Innovative Approaches to Lifetime Learning
Robert DeFillippi, Suffolk University
Charles Wankel, St. John's University

1. Lifelong Learning through Corporate Universities in Partnerships with Traditional Universities
Lindsay Ryan, University of South Australia

2. Co-Presence And Group Process in Online Management Education
Judith Stevens-Long, Fielding Graduate University
Charles McClintock, Fielding Graduate University

3. Enhancing the Impact of an Open Enrollment Executive Program through Assessment
Schon Beechler, Duke Corporate Education
Lyle Yorks, Teachers College, Columbia University
Rachel Ciporen, Teachers College, Columbia University

4. Reflexive Critique in the Business Curriculum: An Invitation to Life Long Learning
Elena Antonacopoulou, University of Liverpool, U.K.

5. Challenges of Educating European Managers of Lifelong Learning
Steven J. Armstrong, University of Hull, UK
Denise Thursfield, University of Hull, UK
Paolo Landri, National Research Council Italy
Giuseppe Ponzini, National Research Council Italy

6. Innovative Assessment Pathway to a Lifetime of Management Learning
Maria Avdjieva, The University of Auckland

7. What Have We Learned About Strategic Leadership Development?
Robert M. Fulmer, Pepperdine University
Jared Bleak, Duke Corporate Education

8. Framing Arts-Based Learning as an Intersectional Innovation in Continuing Management Education: The Intersection of Arts and Business and the Innovation of Arts-Based Learning
Nick Nissley, The Banff Centre

9. Life Long Learning for Managers--the Business of Executive Education: A Case Study of a Small University Provider
Steven Maranville, University of Houston-Downtown
Wil Uecker, Rice University

10. Lifelong Learning in the Crossroads of Globalization: Universities and Rebuilding of Knowledge Environment
Arunas Augustinaitis, Mykolas Romeris University
Egle Malinauskiene, Mykolas Romeris University
Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York