A Strategic Blended Model for Indian Management Education

Students with different educational background and work experiences poses a challenge before the teacher to devise the most effective learning strategy to meet their expectations while maintaining uniformity in the class in terms of knowledge dissemination and retention. Puretraditional or pure e- learning models was not successful in Indian context. The right blend between these two should bring out the true flavourof the course. Besides others MWBIS discusses the technology barriers effectively and reaches out to the students. Therefore, the technology mediated education should mitigate the lacunae of existinghigher education models. This study delves into various pedagogical aspects of management education covering both forms of education to find out the factors responsible for perfect blend. The study revealed that there is a need to develop contextual & choice based curriculum. The model suggests that the students demand autonomy as management education demands maturity hence a degree of flexibility must be exercised. The analysis would help teachers, professionals or anyone who wish to may be considering using technology tools to impart knowledge. This description may be from another edition of this product.