Role of Technology in Enhancing the Quality of Higher Business Management Education – A Description
Keywords:
Information technology, higher management education, enhancing the quality of educationAbstract
Today technology is having its impact on every direction mankind takes and higher management education cannot be an exception. In fact technology is confirming that it precipitates change in management education by providing and accessing information, learning approaches and methods of teaching and learning. Technology helps by providing learning resources, individualized learning, making the task of teaching-learning interesting, decisive and fruitful. Thus, students learn more and without any burden with the help of technology. It is only with the help of technology that distance higher management education has come to stand on its feet. Higher management education is provided by traditional universities in their campuses and in the colleges affiliated with these universities, institutions for profit and by independent institutions. Some well known business management institutions, as well some universities, also run executive development programmers, training programmers et cetera where the students are working executives. The maximum number of business management graduates and post graduates come from colleges affiliated to universities. Students, coming from different institutions, entering the market, are paid differently by recruiters. This paper makes an attempt to review the role of technology in enhancing the quality of higher management education. In early days of the use of technology in higher business management education was limited to automating but now-a-days technology is being used to transform the management education. For example, use of information technology in higher business management education improves communication, efficiency and decision making. Interactive computer applications and simulation exercises are used for ‘visiting’ and ‘meeting’ the key players before entering the class. Instructor’s console, computer assisted instructions facilitate information and knowledge sharing. To transit knowledge is the ultimate goal of teaching.
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