Online and Blended Business Education for the 21st Century

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Multi-disciplinary and program-level research in online business education

Introduction

For online business education to be effective, it seems appropriate first to consider effectiveness from a programmatic or curricular perspective rather than from the perspective of individual disciplines. Business programs seek to deliver an integrated curriculum, albeit with slight variations across institutions, usually depending upon areas of faculty or institutional competency or specialized regional or student needs, particularly at the graduate level (Julian and Ofori-Dankwa, 2006; Navarro, 2008; Dierdorff, 2009). It therefore behooves business schools to ensure to the greatest extent possible that their delivery of online programs is of consistent ...