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ACADEM by RimaOne is partnering with well over one hundred Higher Education Institutions around the world, supporting them in their mission for continuous quality improvement with our dedicated software solutions.
We do not stop there however, but support business schools to engage with their wider community and share their best practices on both their data management and overall accreditation journeys, so that others can benefit as well.
The ACADEM Knowledge Bar is a platform to foster and share best practices, opinions, and white papers of those who know best: You!
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9th edition: The re-design of programmes post-COVID
As we all know too well, the pandemic has left an indelible mark on higher education, corporate universities, and companies. This edition of the Knowledge Bar delves into different perspectives on how this impact manifests for different stakeholders.
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Universities of the MENA: The Success Story
With the continuity of the Peri-COVID Era and as the post-COVID era starts to unravel, one cannot but recognize the agility and the nimbleness with which Higher education institutions (HEIs) of the MENA region responded to this disruption that wreaked havoc on HEIs...

Building a data-driven culture in Business Schools
Data is the lifeblood of every Higher Education Institution (HEI) in nowadays dynamic environments. There is much resistance from business schools to adopt a data-driven culture despite that much empirical research suggests that data-driven organizations outperform...

Business case writing at Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business
Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business, located in Montreal, Canada, recently signed a partnership with Ivey Publishing to write, publish and distribute business cases written by the John Molson community to schools around the world. Part of the...

Rethinking the student experience with a phygital approach
Phygital as a contraction of 'physical' and 'digital' is a combination of the use of digital elements in a physical environment to enhance the learner's experience. Even before the COVID-19, education was already facing the transformation of its practices due to the...

Social Media and learning
Students are using Social Media to choose a University, and most Universities are responding in a big way by communicating their values and successes on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. But is that the end of the matter? Once students have joined us, we can follow on...

Initial Accreditation: Starting with the Right Foot Forward
Given the recent move to providing online learning, or some might say, a race that has been accelerated by Covid19, student engagement has again been raised as a key objective to assist learners achieve their desired learning outcomes. By Adam Thomas Accreditation and...

Three Essential Elements of a Smooth Initial Accreditation Journey
At the beginning of an initial accreditation journey, schools usually aspire to earn accreditation as quickly as possible, while at the same time attempting to reflect and make an authentic self-assessment of their performance against the standards, incorporate peer...

Lessons learnt on the way to triple crown
As an accreditation officer at a triple-crown accredited school, you are frequently asked how long it takes to attain your first international accreditation and what would be the fastest way to get there. However, there is not really a fast track about accreditation....

Engaging learners in their education: or everything old is new again!
Given the recent move to providing online learning, or some might say, a race that has been accelerated by Covid19, student engagement has again been raised as a key objective to assist learners achieve their desired learning outcomes. By Kim Watty Professor Emeritus...

Meeting more and more demanding participants’ expectations: A holistic and systematic learning approach
Nowadays, meeting more and more demanding participants’ expectations in the higher education sector requires a holistic and systematic approach, including both learning processes based on research-led teaching strategy and effective processes in assurance quality. As...