Gerade die WU als eine der größten Wirtschaftsuniversitäten Europas und mit ihren internationalen Kooperationsbeziehungen verfügt über die entsprechenden Forschungs- und Lehrkompetenzen, um im Bereich Digital Economy ein beachteter Wissenshub zu werden.

Mit dem englischsprachigen Masterstudium (MSc) „Digital Economy“ wird diese Positionierung der WU weiter gestärkt. Auch in der postgradualen Ausbildung und Executive Education sind Angebote rund um Digital Economy fixer Bestandteil, um den Wissenstransfer zu digitalen Skills, Management und Methoden für das digitale Zeitalter voranzutreiben. Künftig werden diese weiter ausgebaut. In Bereich der Executive Academy wird zusätzlich ein Angebot reiner Online-Programme wie „Agile Leadership“ aufgebaut.

As part of a seamless learning approach, digital and real-world learning environments will be closely linked to enhance proper learning processes for students. A blended learning format created especially for WU will make teaching and learning more flexible in terms of time, and allow new teaching paths to be explored.

Formats based on purely virtual collaboration between students and faculty members are an opportunity for students to participate in shared learning across universities or continents and prepare them for the increasingly globally organized working world.

WU will take a methodical approach to developing a structured concept for an online learning environment of the future and plan the necessary organizational steps.

This process will involve faculty, staff, students and the central service units.

To promote a high-quality virtual learning experience, WU will work with the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) to outfit a teaching room with state-of-the-art digital equipment. This will create a space for new didactic concepts and techniques for visualizing complex topics while also providing students and faculty at WU with access to the digital technologies used in business.

Students will be able to use virtual work desks to access electronic resources, software, and data sets from outside Campus WU. Existing project rooms will be outfitted as interactive project rooms to encourage cooperation among students, enhanced by digital media.

WU will join with other universities to employ learning and predictive analytics to better ensure that students stay on track to complete their studies successfully.

WU’s central student lifecycle management system will either be completely reworked or updated with new IT solutions implemented step by step for improved technology and user interfaces. Additionally, the processes for digitally submitting, processing, and archiving academic theses will also be redesigned. Digital smartphone student IDs will be rolled out in addition to the existing chip-card student IDs.