Inaugural lecture of Teaching Professor Espen Andersen

Chasing scarcity in teaching: Business education in a time of Ai disruption

Economics teaches us that superior profits can only come from scarcity, from creating a unique and valuable position. While business schools (still) maintain their monopoly in candidate certification, they face technology-based competition in teaching and an AI-based disruption in evaluation: Students can find their lectures online and do their papers with AI. What should business schools do?

Espen will use his own teaching development and pedagogical experiments to reflect on this problem and offer some suggestions for the future.

About Teaching Professor Espen Andersen

Espen Andersen (DBA) is a Teaching Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Informatics, University of Oslo. He has had a 40-year career as a teacher, researcher, consultant, writer and international public speaker. An avid proponent of interactive, case-based teaching, he has co-authored the standard textbook on the subject and developed many courses and programs, at all student levels, with a focus on technology and innovation management, business development, strategic analysis, and having fun.

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