Expectations and frustrations with the offer of graduate courses

Abstract

Education is a vector for transforming realities into the information society and, because of this, new technologies are bringing constant innovations that challenge traditional educational models. At the same time, market hypercompetitiveness demands of constant professional update and preparation for not only react, but also transform from new scenarios. This paper presents, first, a benchmarking that explores new educational trends that are transforming the way people learn, in examples such as the Massive Online Courses and Cloud School.  Then, this paper investigates the main expectations and frustrations of professionals who seek in the offer of postgraduate courses a service able to meet their demands, employing generative sessions, from the design thinking, as a qualitative data collection and projective techniques. The findings shows, from a marketing perspective, a significant gap between the delivery of the service and the service expected in post-graduation courses, in aspects such as frustration with the methodologies adopted, inadequate incorporation of technologies and a distance between the market practice and the preparation performed in the classroom.