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The Expanding Online Learning Universe: Applications to Business Education

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Hybrid Learning: Innovation in Educational Practices (ICHL 2015)

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Management education has entered into a seminal period, which is being driven by globalization, demographics, new learning technologies, soaring tuitions, and unprecedented economic uncertainty. The approach being adopted in a growing number of business schools is to engage faculty and students in a virtual online and hybrid-based learning experience. Specifically, this new paradigm fundamentally alters the three pillars of traditional instruction — fixed time, fixed location, and fixed learning pace — with a more flexible, customized, and mobile learning environment. The primary goal of this article is to highlight how the online and hybrid paradigms can significantly improve student learning opportunities and outcomes in business education.

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  1. Pepperdine University, Graziadio School of Business and Management, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA, USA

    Owen Hall Jr., Kenneth Ko, Robert Emrich & Yingxi Lu

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  1. The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Simon K.S. Cheung

  2. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Lam-for Kwok

  3. State University of New York at Oswego and Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, Oswego, New York, USA

    Harrison Yang

  4. City University of Hong Kong and International Hybrid Learning Society, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, China

    Joseph Fong

  5. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong, China

    Reggie Kwan

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Hall, O., Ko, K., Emrich, R., Lu, Y. (2015). The Expanding Online Learning Universe: Applications to Business Education. In: Cheung, S., Kwok, Lf., Yang, H., Fong, J., Kwan, R. (eds) Hybrid Learning: Innovation in Educational Practices. ICHL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9167. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20621-9_17

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