Tag Archives: Education

Teacher’s note, part 3

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Riikka

As a part of the 4M theme week, I asked a few of our professors to write about the first year of the new Marketing and Media Management program from a teacher’s point of view. Professor Per Andersson wrote about … Continue reading →

Posted in Stockholm School of Economics | Tagged Education, Guest lecture, Handels, Master program, SSE, SSE4M, Stockholm School of Economics | 1 Comment

4M Recap

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Vanessa Meyer

Hello all the soon to be SSE 4M Students! We thought it would be best to use this forum to write a few words about our experience at SSE so far. As you may know, our year was the first … Continue reading →

Posted in General Interest, Marketing, Media, Stockholm School of Economics | Tagged CEMS, Classmates, Education, Handelshögskolan, Markerting, Master degree, Master program, media management, School, SSE 4M, Stockholm School of Economics | 2 Comments

A Year I’ll Never Forget

Posted on April 19, 2010 by pierrefect

My first year at the 4M program has been one of so many different experiences and learning opportunities that I cannot possibly cover them all without writing a book. However, I will talk about three things that I think the new “4M:ers” should be aware of:
1. You will learn and develop a lot
2. You will meet new friends
3. You will work hard Continue reading →

Posted in Marketing, Stockholm School of Economics | Tagged 4M, Education, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Marketing, New Students, SSE, SSE4M, Welcoming | Leave a comment

What is the Goal of Teaching and Learning?

Posted on March 22, 2010 by pierrefect

As a sidetrack to Lisa’s attack on the classical exam, I would like to bring up another potential problem. In school we have a tendency to over-focus on skills relating to “rationality”. These are indeed very useful skills that everyone … Continue reading →

Posted in General Interest, Marketing, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden | Tagged 4M, Corner of a Mind, creativity, Education, Future, Irrationality, learning, Management, Marketing, Master program, MSc, Rationality, School, SSE, Stockholm School of Economics, TED, University | 1 Comment

Why do we have exams? II

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Lisa Enckell

A few days ago, I wrote a post criticizing the way performance is measured at Universities. I dislike exams and I do not think that they emphasize the tools we need in “real life”. Today I read an interesting post … Continue reading →

Posted in Stockholm School of Economics | Tagged Education, Google, Jeff Jarvis, Knowledge, University | 1 Comment

Why do we have exams?

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Lisa Enckell

For a while now, I have been thinking about exams, and why our performance in school to a large extent is based on our results from exams. The idea behind an exam is that you read, read, read until your … Continue reading →