More Business Schools Tap into Online Education and Smart Devices
The MBA has diverged from the traditional classroom teaching to incorporate online education. Executive MBA is now a module followed by number of business schools and appropriate for students who do not wish to take out separate time for full time study. Smart devices are coming in aid of these courses. A university in Australia has devised an online based study module where students are provided with Apple i-Pads pre-fitted with video based classes and study material. Coursera is providing an online platform so popular that more than ten million users are now registered with the same. Even Stanford University in California has developed a LEAD Certificate programme specifically for executive MBA. The trend is set to grow as recent market researchhas revealed that more than four million tablets and PCs sold out in the third quarter of 2014 in the US education sector alone.
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