Online and Blended Business Education for the 21st Century

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Where should we go from here?

Introduction

Although the pace of research activity on online and blended business education has accelerated dramatically during the last decade, the literature review and conclusions drawn from the research to date provided in previous chapters suggest that the state of online and blended education in the business school is not unlike a vehicle with tires of widely varying levels of inflation. Disciplines such as information systems and management represent fairly well inflated tires, marketing and accounting represent somewhat underinflated tires that may be leaking air, and disciplines such as finance and economics are almost completely flat tires.

Such a state of affairs may be problematic for business educators, ...