Sep 29 2011 6:45PM
The UCS School of Business, Leadership & Enterprise launched their 2011/12 Research Seminar Series this week with a presentation by Visiting Professor, Sylvia Van De Bunt. The seminar, based on a research paper entitled ‘Workplace e-learning; a call for servant-leadership’, was attended by staff and students in the Waterfront Building at the Ipswich Campus.
"E-learning is part of our everyday life at work and in education. E-learning comprises all forms of computer-enabled learning activities, like web-based learning, virtual team collaboration and content exchange via the Internet. More often learners will not meet face-to-face anymore, and some suffer from denied access to e-learning opportunities. This calls for a more compassioned kind of leader, able to reconcile the dilemma of high-tech versus hi-touch in the online classroom.”
Professor Sylvia Van De Bunt is Co-Director of the Servant-Leadership Center for Research and Education in the Faculty of Economics at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and was appointed Visiting Professor of Servant Leadership at UCS in July this year.