He spent long hours learning and faced many failures before achieving success.
As teams stayed together longer, they had less to learn and faced a greater risk of becoming too rigid and predictable in their routines.
The EMBA at IE Business School, ranked second, makes extensive use of distance learning, and face-to-face classes take place in Spain, China and Brazil, so it is not essential for students to be too near at hand.
Some students, like some of those in India and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo, already study entirely online, but most of the university's 5,000 students are enrolled in blend of online learning and face-to-face sessions at learning centers in the students' home countries.
Olivier mentioned one main difference between distance learning and face-to-face-learning.
While you watch the video, note down what Olivier says about a) the main difference between distance learning and face-to-face learning and b) the three advantages of distance learning.
The choice to retain a mixed model of online learning and face-to-face instruction was made because audience feedback valued the opportunity for networking and one-on-one instruction on difficult complex informatic topics.
First there was no comparison between computer-assisted learning and face-to-face educational techniques and so this study provides no information about the relative benefits of these approaches.
Hybrid classes, which combine the benefits of online learning and face-to-face instruction, are becoming increasingly popular (Garrison and Vaughan, 2008; Means et al., 2010), and a number of studies suggest student outcomes can be equal to or greater than those from traditional face-to-face courses (Amaral and Shank, 2010; Means et al., 2010; Bowen et al., 2014).
Learning about a new subject and facing deadlines only added to the pressure.
