In so far MBA programs are a contribution to skillful professional practice; we need MBA environments that evoke complex outcomes. For example, studies of what employers look for in new graduate hires or in more established managers place a lot of emphasis on "non-academic" achievements, attributes or assets - on so called "soft skills" of course, much non formal learning will already have contributed to the development of the soft skills that correspondence MBA participants bring with them.
However, experience lies behind misconceptions just as much as it evokes better conceptions. Many of the complex learning outcomes that MBA programs intend to foster develop slowly, across a program, rather than across a single module. The assessment of learning is central to a program's success in general and, in particular; to the formation of a disposition to transfer knowing. An increasing range of MBA programs have adopted approaches which include such activities. For example, several programs use an action learning approach: participants make interventions in real world problems and work in facilitated learning sets to generate both learning and action. Other programs have adopted a service learning approach. Student projects in not for profit and community organizations are used as a basis for learning about management. Online MBA study should not be available to people without prior relevant work experience.
The MBA defined as a career development generalist program for those who have significant post- graduation and relevant work experience on which the learning process should build. The online MBA programs has grown to be one of the India's most popular management courses with students in around 40 different countries. It s accredited by all three major international accrediting bodies. The online executive MBA is a one year part-time program at master level. As with distance leaning MBA it is taught via online learning. It is intended to provide a good foundation in general management.
The program was first to be accredited under certification of e- Learning scheme. Participants are practicing managers who study alongside their work. Participants' age and experience varies considerably, but the median age is 35. The program is founded on four assumptions:
* Program participants are practicing managers who jointly bring to the program experience of business and management in diverse setting;
* The artificial division of management theory into disciplines is a convenience for most effective way of preparing managers for the richness and complexity of the worlds in which they operate.
* Learning happens most readily when participants are exposed to experience which challenge their existing assumption and when they are invited to grapple with the tensions set up between multiple perspectives on the same problem;
* There is no unitary body of knowledge. Each participant will encounter a different curriculum which they create from the program tools and frameworks they find useful, their own learning history, their learning encounters in their own organization, and ideas and management practice from fellow participants, Assessment should reflect this assumption.
