{"id":46125,"date":"2014-05-16T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T14:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=46125"},"modified":"2014-05-16T10:29:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T14:29:34","slug":"the-online-mba-comes-of-age-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/05\/16\/the-online-mba-comes-of-age-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"The Online MBA comes of age [WSJ]"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the WSJ’s Morning Ledger:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The online MBA comes of age.<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>You\u2019d think that of all the academic pursuits,\u00a0business school would remain most immune to online learning. Beyond studies, MBA programs offer up-and-coming C-suiters access to the graduate-level schmoozing that could come in handy later on. Nevertheless, the online MBA program is growing,\u00a0Delta Sky Magazine\u2019s Kevin Featherly reports<\/a>. What they lack in post-exam cordials with the professor, they make up for in a more diverse, more experienced student body, say advocates. \u201cIn ground-based programs, you\u2019re connected to a more local audience,\u201d the dean of the University of Bridgeport\u2019s Ernest C. Trefz School of Business tells Delta. \u201cIn the online program, you\u2019re interacting with business professionals from around the world.\u201d But not everything is so encouraging. A professor at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina tells Mr. Featherly how surprised he was \u201cwhen a course designer suggested he use a cartoon character to illustrate a hard-core economics principle.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"TheOnlineMBAComesOfAge-Featherly-May2014\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"QuoteFromFeatherlyArticleMay2014\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nConsider this. Steve Jobs lived by the philosophy of cannibalizing Apple’s own business, as he held that Apple needed to cannibalize itself or someone else would do it for them.\u00a0 And here’s the key thing to consider:\u00a0 Apple is the largest company in the world, based on market cap (505.92B as of this morning) and market value.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The point is, we in higher ed can’t be afraid of change. We must change. It’s time for more<\/span> Trimtab Groups<\/a> within higher education.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the WSJ’s Morning Ledger: The online MBA comes of age. You\u2019d think that of all the academic pursuits,\u00a0business school would remain most immune to online learning. Beyond studies, MBA programs offer up-and-coming C-suiters access to the graduate-level schmoozing that could come in handy later on. Nevertheless, the online MBA program is growing,\u00a0Delta Sky Magazine\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,209,498,112,200,159,72,286,346,32,98,533,379,62,436,310,212,118,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-communities-of-practice","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-learning","category-distance-education","category-education-technology","category-elearning","category-experimentation","category-mba","category-online-learning","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-surviving","category-training-corporate-universities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46125"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46134,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46125\/revisions\/46134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}