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Title:
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CHALLENGES FACING STUDENTS IN AN ONLINE MBA PROGRAM |
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Author(s):
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Vichuda Nui Polatoglu , Ozan Aglargoz |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-42-3 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
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Year:
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2007 |
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Edition:
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V II, 2 |
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Keywords:
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e-learning, e-MBA, online MBA, Turkey |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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101 |
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Last Page:
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104 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The purpose of this study is to explore challenges and problems facing students in an online MBA program from their
perspectives. The program is unique in that it is one of the partnerships formed between a large public Turkish university
and an American university. We focus on identifying different dimensions of the sources of the challenges students are
facing. A focus-group and semi-structured interviews were conducted by the authors with almost half of the students
currently enrolled in the program. Focus-group results showed four main problem sources students faced namely:
technology, culture, instructor and individual. These four dimensions were investigated further using in-depth, semistructured
interviews in order to highlight the reasons behind them. The authors provide some guidelines about how the
challenges faced by students can be overcome. |
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