Changes to IPM’s Day-to-Day Work in Line with COVID-19

From all other European nations, with the exception of Sweden, the Republic of Belarus is the only country not introducing strict measures to try to slow the spread of the virus.

IPM Business School faced a controversial situation:

There are no official restrictions or lock-down mode for the educational institutions. Otherwise, people are afraid to come in groups. IPM Business School in it's turn cannot neglect the pandemic risks and keeps being socially responsible.

So here are the brief updates on the challenges we faced and the changes we’ve made to our day-today work in line with COVID 19.

The pandemic situation proved the benefits of IPM's introducing in the Y2015 Blended Learning and Cisco TelePresence technologies. Currently, we are able to provide the necessary mix of technologies and formats: offline, offline + online, up to the transition to pure distancing if necessary.

To date, we integrated IPM’s educational programs with advanced online services that allows interactivity during full-time classes between the teacher and the group located in the classroom and remote students.

A number of classes were conducted in mixed mode (offline + online). At the moment, all our classes take place in distance mode via Zoom.

IPM introduced as well the GET SMARTED project as a series of relevant educational programs developed on the principle of Blended Learning combined with the use of ZOOM-sessions.

GET SMARTED is not a “dialogue with the computer” or viewing webinars. It is interactive, including group discussions with other participants, case studies and assignments under the supervision of a teacher. The distance is physical, not social.