Career tip: Is a part-time MBA worth your money and time?

Photo: Business Today

Five years ago, Neeraj Arya, now a deputy manager with a telecom company, enrolled for a short duration, distance learning management programme being conducted by arguably the most prestigious business school in the country, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

He had hoped it would open up new career options for him. But after attending a few interviews once he had completed the course, he realised to his shock that it would do no such thing.

"As soon as my interviewers heard I had done a distance learning course and not the regular postgraduate programme, they were no longer interested," he says.
Thousands of young people who are already employed, but who, for various reasons, missed out on traditional management education, take such part-time courses - often conducted long distance, using satellite - hoping to improve their career prospects.

Though IIM-A has stopped them, many other leading management schools such as IIM, Bangalore and Lucknow, XLRI, Jamshedpur, and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi, persist with these courses.

Why are employers unimpressed? It is primarily because, unlike in a regular MBA course, where the selection process is rigorous, almost anyone who wants to - and pays the fee - can enrol for part time courses.

"There is a lot of competition to get into the MBA programmes offered by reputed schools. This is not perceived to be the case with executive MBA courses," says Ruchi Bajpai, senior HR consultant with Elixir Consulting, a recruitment and search firm.
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Source: Business Today

Career tip: Is a part-time MBA worth your money and time?

Photo: Business Today

Five years ago, Neeraj Arya, now a deputy manager with a telecom company, enrolled for a short duration, distance learning management programme being conducted by arguably the most prestigious business school in the country, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

He had hoped it would open up new career options for him. But after attending a few interviews once he had completed the course, he realised to his shock that it would do no such thing.

"As soon as my interviewers heard I had done a distance learning course and not the regular postgraduate programme, they were no longer interested," he says.
Thousands of young people who are already employed, but who, for various reasons, missed out on traditional management education, take such part-time courses - often conducted long distance, using satellite - hoping to improve their career prospects.

Though IIM-A has stopped them, many other leading management schools such as IIM, Bangalore and Lucknow, XLRI, Jamshedpur, and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi, persist with these courses.

Why are employers unimpressed? It is primarily because, unlike in a regular MBA course, where the selection process is rigorous, almost anyone who wants to - and pays the fee - can enrol for part time courses.

"There is a lot of competition to get into the MBA programmes offered by reputed schools. This is not perceived to be the case with executive MBA courses," says Ruchi Bajpai, senior HR consultant with Elixir Consulting, a recruitment and search firm.
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Source: Business Today

Internet Business Entrepreneur Gives Away Business Blueprint Online

Internet business entrepreneur gives away his business blueprint online through BringitonMarketing.com. A successful Internet businessman is now offering his exclusive streaming video business training found only at the BringitonMarketing.com website.

Photo: PRWeb

Internet business is extremely strong according to Forbes economic data. While some offline industries struggle to meet profit projections, many online companies are experiencing rapid growth and high sales conversions. The marketing website, Bring it on Marketing, has released a business blueprint that is accessible online that details the success of an Internet businessman. This blueprint is the exact formula that is used each day to exceed sales of over one million dollars annually. Online business owners that are struggling to find a target group could learn how to increase profits virtually overnight using this detailed online blueprint. Those interested in earning higher online profits can click here to access the streaming video business training.

The e-commerce industry has quadrupled in size since 1999 according to business data. Many offline retail chains have either closed up permanently or have organized bankruptcy protection to help reorganize offline business strategies. Companies that have a website that is e-commerce enabled are able to reach consumers around the world that are ready to make a purchase. While billions of dollars are spent annually online, some companies could benefit from a change in strategy to shift the focus to areas that are proven to bring in more customers.

According to the Internet entrepreneur business training, there are untapped markets that are being used by a select few companies that are bringing in steady monthly income worldwide. While a person can spend thousands on business training at a seminar, learning Internet business training online is one way that some website owners are changing their income models. The training offered by Bring it on Marketing has been reviewed for accuracy and has been judged by the internal panel of experts to be worthy of presentation from the BringitonMarketing.com website.

The streaming video training series can be accessed 24 hours a day by going to this link at the Bring it on Marketing website.
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About Bring it on Marketing

Internet marketing training programs are a sample of what is offered at the Bring it on Marketing website. This team of Internet experts has inside information that few have access to about building a successful online business from the ground up. Businesses that are struggling to find a source of continuous profits often use the information that is provided by Bring it on Marketing to apply to daily business strategies online. With unbiased reviews and expert training offered, Bring it on Marketing is quickly becoming an in-demand resource online.

Source: PRWeb

Internet Business Entrepreneur Gives Away Business Blueprint Online

Internet business entrepreneur gives away his business blueprint online through BringitonMarketing.com. A successful Internet businessman is now offering his exclusive streaming video business training found only at the BringitonMarketing.com website.

Photo: PRWeb

Internet business is extremely strong according to Forbes economic data. While some offline industries struggle to meet profit projections, many online companies are experiencing rapid growth and high sales conversions. The marketing website, Bring it on Marketing, has released a business blueprint that is accessible online that details the success of an Internet businessman. This blueprint is the exact formula that is used each day to exceed sales of over one million dollars annually. Online business owners that are struggling to find a target group could learn how to increase profits virtually overnight using this detailed online blueprint. Those interested in earning higher online profits can click here to access the streaming video business training.

The e-commerce industry has quadrupled in size since 1999 according to business data. Many offline retail chains have either closed up permanently or have organized bankruptcy protection to help reorganize offline business strategies. Companies that have a website that is e-commerce enabled are able to reach consumers around the world that are ready to make a purchase. While billions of dollars are spent annually online, some companies could benefit from a change in strategy to shift the focus to areas that are proven to bring in more customers.

According to the Internet entrepreneur business training, there are untapped markets that are being used by a select few companies that are bringing in steady monthly income worldwide. While a person can spend thousands on business training at a seminar, learning Internet business training online is one way that some website owners are changing their income models. The training offered by Bring it on Marketing has been reviewed for accuracy and has been judged by the internal panel of experts to be worthy of presentation from the BringitonMarketing.com website.

The streaming video training series can be accessed 24 hours a day by going to this link at the Bring it on Marketing website.
Read more... 

About Bring it on Marketing

Internet marketing training programs are a sample of what is offered at the Bring it on Marketing website. This team of Internet experts has inside information that few have access to about building a successful online business from the ground up. Businesses that are struggling to find a source of continuous profits often use the information that is provided by Bring it on Marketing to apply to daily business strategies online. With unbiased reviews and expert training offered, Bring it on Marketing is quickly becoming an in-demand resource online.

Source: PRWeb

Low-decile e-learning project a world leader by Simon Collins

A world-first "e-learning" project which is transforming children's lives in some of Auckland's poorest suburbs is looking for partners to expand throughout the country next year.

Photo: New Zealand Herald

Children as young as 5 in nine schools in the Tamaki-Glen Innes area are publishing their work on the internet and attracting feedback from around the world - with extraordinary effects on their motivation.

"It's so affirming," says project manager Dorothy Burt.

Two-thirds of the students are from Pasifika families where often the main language at home is not English. Another quarter are Maori.

They start school two years behind the national average but at Pt England School, the first to use the new technology, they now catch up with the average in reading and maths by Year 5.
Pat Snedden, the chairman of the Manaiakalani trust that manages the project, says it is attracting worldwide attention.

"People from Google say no one in the world is using our tools like you are," he says.

"People from all over the country are interested in replicating this. As the school results come through, we are constantly getting feedback saying we'd be really keen to put this in our area."
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SELF-MOTIVATION

Learn
A teacher assigned Year 8 students to watch Mt Roskill Grammar student Joshua Iosefo's inspirational speech "Brown Brother" on YouTube.
Create
Students wrote reviews of the speech, which were checked by their teacher.
Share
They published their reviews on their online blogs. Joshua's mother, Fetaui Iosefo, came across them and posted a comment saying "how very proud I am of you all for showing great understanding of Joshua Iosefo's 'spoken word'."

ON THE WEB
manaiakalani.org

Source: New Zealand Herald

Low-decile e-learning project a world leader by Simon Collins

A world-first "e-learning" project which is transforming children's lives in some of Auckland's poorest suburbs is looking for partners to expand throughout the country next year.

Photo: New Zealand Herald

Children as young as 5 in nine schools in the Tamaki-Glen Innes area are publishing their work on the internet and attracting feedback from around the world - with extraordinary effects on their motivation.

"It's so affirming," says project manager Dorothy Burt.

Two-thirds of the students are from Pasifika families where often the main language at home is not English. Another quarter are Maori.

They start school two years behind the national average but at Pt England School, the first to use the new technology, they now catch up with the average in reading and maths by Year 5.
Pat Snedden, the chairman of the Manaiakalani trust that manages the project, says it is attracting worldwide attention.

"People from Google say no one in the world is using our tools like you are," he says.

"People from all over the country are interested in replicating this. As the school results come through, we are constantly getting feedback saying we'd be really keen to put this in our area."
Read more...

SELF-MOTIVATION

Learn
A teacher assigned Year 8 students to watch Mt Roskill Grammar student Joshua Iosefo's inspirational speech "Brown Brother" on YouTube.
Create
Students wrote reviews of the speech, which were checked by their teacher.
Share
They published their reviews on their online blogs. Joshua's mother, Fetaui Iosefo, came across them and posted a comment saying "how very proud I am of you all for showing great understanding of Joshua Iosefo's 'spoken word'."

ON THE WEB
manaiakalani.org

Source: New Zealand Herald

Enthusiasm, Hesitation and Stress: The Faculty and Technology by Steve Kolowich

Professors are excited about many of the trappings of digital teaching and scholarship. Other effects increase professors' work loads, stress them out, and scare them, a survey by Inside Higher Ed and Babson Survey Research Group.

 

Download Conflicted: Faculty and Online Education, 2012 and Digital Faculty:
Professors, Teaching and Technology, 2012.

Professors occasionally get lampooned as luddites responsible for the famously slow pace of change in higher education. But in truth the majority of professors are excited about various technology-driven trends in higher education, including the growth of e-textbooks and digital library collections, the increased use of data monitoring as a way to track student performance along with their own, and the increasingly popular idea of “flipping the classroom.”

 

However, other technology trends are more likely to make professors break into a clammy sweat. These include the proliferation of scholarship outlets operating outside the traditional model for peer review, the growth of for-profit education, and the intensity of digital communications. The digital era has brought to the surface other tensions as well, particularly differences in how professors and academic technology administrators perceive how broader technological changes are affecting their campuses and how they should feel about it.

 

These are some of the findings in the second of two reports from surveys conducted by Inside Higher Ed and the Babson Survey Research Group. The first report, focusing on faculty views of online education, was published in June.

A PDF of the new, second report can be downloaded here; the text of the report can be viewed here.

 

The survey relied on the responses of 4,564 faculty members, composing a nationally representative sample spanning various types of institutions; and 591 administrators who are responsible for academic technology at their institutions.

 

The faculty members’ net-positive outlook on several tech-related pedagogical trends suggests that student performance feedback loops and “flipping the classroom” are durable enough to outlast their current buzz. “The increasing collection and analysis of data on teaching and learning on a course-by-course basis” garnered the most enthusiasm of any of the excitement/fear questions in the survey, with 74 percent of professors saying it is, on balance, a good thing.

 

Using the LMS

The learning management system, or LMS, is the nexus of traditional and online education. Not all colleges hold courses online, but virtually every college has an LMS. And since the online platforms can serve as a vehicle for other digital teaching tools, the ways the LMS are being used on a particular campus -- and the ways it is not -- are a pretty good indicator of technology buy-in of an institution and its faculty.

But fewer professors are using the LMS than administrators think.
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Source: Inside Higher Ed 

Enthusiasm, Hesitation and Stress: The Faculty and Technology by Steve Kolowich

Professors are excited about many of the trappings of digital teaching and scholarship. Other effects increase professors' work loads, stress them out, and scare them, a survey by Inside Higher Ed and Babson Survey Research Group.

 

Download Conflicted: Faculty and Online Education, 2012 and Digital Faculty:
Professors, Teaching and Technology, 2012.

Professors occasionally get lampooned as luddites responsible for the famously slow pace of change in higher education. But in truth the majority of professors are excited about various technology-driven trends in higher education, including the growth of e-textbooks and digital library collections, the increased use of data monitoring as a way to track student performance along with their own, and the increasingly popular idea of “flipping the classroom.”

 

However, other technology trends are more likely to make professors break into a clammy sweat. These include the proliferation of scholarship outlets operating outside the traditional model for peer review, the growth of for-profit education, and the intensity of digital communications. The digital era has brought to the surface other tensions as well, particularly differences in how professors and academic technology administrators perceive how broader technological changes are affecting their campuses and how they should feel about it.

 

These are some of the findings in the second of two reports from surveys conducted by Inside Higher Ed and the Babson Survey Research Group. The first report, focusing on faculty views of online education, was published in June.

A PDF of the new, second report can be downloaded here; the text of the report can be viewed here.

 

The survey relied on the responses of 4,564 faculty members, composing a nationally representative sample spanning various types of institutions; and 591 administrators who are responsible for academic technology at their institutions.

 

The faculty members’ net-positive outlook on several tech-related pedagogical trends suggests that student performance feedback loops and “flipping the classroom” are durable enough to outlast their current buzz. “The increasing collection and analysis of data on teaching and learning on a course-by-course basis” garnered the most enthusiasm of any of the excitement/fear questions in the survey, with 74 percent of professors saying it is, on balance, a good thing.

 

Using the LMS

The learning management system, or LMS, is the nexus of traditional and online education. Not all colleges hold courses online, but virtually every college has an LMS. And since the online platforms can serve as a vehicle for other digital teaching tools, the ways the LMS are being used on a particular campus -- and the ways it is not -- are a pretty good indicator of technology buy-in of an institution and its faculty.

But fewer professors are using the LMS than administrators think.
Read more...

Source: Inside Higher Ed 

Apple’s iPad Mini could be a hit in education, but its business appeal is more of a mixed bag by Doug Drinkwater

Doug Drinkwater writes, "A smaller iPad is bound to have success with consumers, but could well attract use in business, healthcare and education, according to market observers."


Photo: TabTimes

The iPad Mini rumor mill is in overdrive, and lips are salivating at the prospective rivalry between Apple, Amazon and Google in the lower end of the consumer tablet space.

If reports are to be believed, the iPad Mini will have a 7.85-inch display, 16GB of memory, run iOS 6 and will debut at $299 when announced alongside the iPhone 5 on September 12 (other reports say later next month).

Apple will most likely pitch this tablet as a consumer device, but given the enterprise success of its bigger brother, is it wrong to assume Apple won't attract business users once again? A number of industry experts think the iPad Mini might just have a chance.   

Smaller iPad could be big news in education

The consensus seems to be that of all the markets, a smaller and cheaper iPad could have significant impact in education.

“It would clearly have some traction in education based on a low price and small size. It might also have some applications for field worker for whom an iPad is too large to hold”, said Stephen Baker, VP of industry analysis at the NPD Group.

Ben Bajarin, TabTimes columnist and principal at Creative Strategies, thinks the tablet may appeal to young children, but reckons that success may be limited as schooling invariably becomes more serious.

“I could see 7-inch working in K-5 for example but once you start getting into text books I am not so sure.”
Read more...      

Source: TabTimes

Apple’s iPad Mini could be a hit in education, but its business appeal is more of a mixed bag by Doug Drinkwater

Doug Drinkwater writes, "A smaller iPad is bound to have success with consumers, but could well attract use in business, healthcare and education, according to market observers."


Photo: TabTimes

The iPad Mini rumor mill is in overdrive, and lips are salivating at the prospective rivalry between Apple, Amazon and Google in the lower end of the consumer tablet space.

If reports are to be believed, the iPad Mini will have a 7.85-inch display, 16GB of memory, run iOS 6 and will debut at $299 when announced alongside the iPhone 5 on September 12 (other reports say later next month).

Apple will most likely pitch this tablet as a consumer device, but given the enterprise success of its bigger brother, is it wrong to assume Apple won't attract business users once again? A number of industry experts think the iPad Mini might just have a chance.   

Smaller iPad could be big news in education

The consensus seems to be that of all the markets, a smaller and cheaper iPad could have significant impact in education.

“It would clearly have some traction in education based on a low price and small size. It might also have some applications for field worker for whom an iPad is too large to hold”, said Stephen Baker, VP of industry analysis at the NPD Group.

Ben Bajarin, TabTimes columnist and principal at Creative Strategies, thinks the tablet may appeal to young children, but reckons that success may be limited as schooling invariably becomes more serious.

“I could see 7-inch working in K-5 for example but once you start getting into text books I am not so sure.”
Read more...      

Source: TabTimes