The pie keeps getting bigger. The way this industry is exploding, SEI should be more than able to take a slice given the quality of their technology. A few selected excerpts from today's WSJ article follows:
More Business Schools Boot Up
To Offer Electronic M.B.A.s
...Duke's Fuqua School of Business is one of a growing
number of other business schools that are counting on
technology to offer a new kind of competitive edge.
Some -- like Harvard University and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology -- are spending millions on
high-tech gadgetry such as improved computer facilities,
videoconferencing equipment and sophisticated internal
electronic-mail systems. More controversially, several
schools, like Duke, are using Internet hook-ups to let
students earn M.B.A.s partly through virtual classes...
...Thanks to a $9 million investment, Harvard Business
School recently acquired 1,400 new computers,
constructed a state-of-the-art computer laboratory and,
this month, put the class work for every M.B.A. course on-line, allowing students to review assignments and
lecture slides and to analyze multimedia case studies on
their PCs. Stanford University is spending more than $1
million to upgrade outmoded technology and equip a
classroom with videoconferencing gear and intends to
invest tens of millions more in the next two or three years.
M.I.T. opened a $3.5 million computerized trading room
for its Sloan School of Management last spring...
...Distance learning via videoconferencing and the Internet
holds the greatest potential for reshaping business
schools. About 35 U.S. schools, including the University
of Michigan and Purdue University, now offer M.B.A.
degrees partly through remote instruction, Mr. Hickman
estimates. Fewer than five did so in 1994...
Electronic Learning
A sample of the bigger high-tech push in M.B.A.
programs:
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, N.H.):
Spent $4 million upgrading technological
capability; added videoconferencing gear and PCs.
Completion date: Sept. 1996
DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.):
Launched a global executive M.B.A. program;
students split their time between classes in
cyberspace and on campuses.
Date begun: May 1996
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
(Champaign-Urbana, Ill.): Created an internal
network that provides assignments, exams and
lecture notes electronically.
Date begun: Sept. 1995
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY (Kingston, Ontario,
Canada): Set up a nationwide executive M.B.A.
program, mainly conducted through
videoconferencing.
Date begun: Fall 1994
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor,
Mich.): Offers a global M.B.A. program where
nearly 1/3 of instruction occurs via
videoconferencing and the Internet.
Date begun: Oct. 1993.
(Initially offered to Cathay Pacific Airlines,
program was extended to managers from three
other Hong Kong employers in Sept. 1996.)
PURDUE UNIVERSITY (Lafayette, Ind.):
Began an executive M.B.A. program that uses
e-mail for largely individualized distance learning.
Date begun: July 1983 |
