RIM and Rogers Communications join university as technology partners

The Laurier School of Business & Economics has engaged its 100 full-time Waterloo MBA students in an innovative one-year mobile e-learning pilot, which kicked off this month. Laurier is working with Research In Motion (RIM) and Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) to bring this mobile e-learning project to MBA students. No other business school in Canada has taken on a program of this scope or breadth at the MBA level.

The Laurier MBA BlackBerry pilot is designed to revolutionize the way the school’s MBA program approaches learning both in and out of the classroom. Students will be armed with a BlackBerry® Curve™ 8900 smartphone from Rogers. The aim of the project is to prepare Laurier’s MBA students for the business world by providing them with the latest mobile learning applications, to extend their access to a multimedia-rich education beyond the walls of the classroom, and to provide tools for collaboration between MBA teammates.

“By working with RIM and Rogers Communications, our partners of choice for this pilot, we are challenging the boundaries of the traditional learning environment,” said Ginny Dybenko, Laurier’s dean of business and economics.

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