Social Interaction At A Distance MBA

To address this question, the business schools are incorporating them more and more to their offering. But if one of the major benefits of a Full Time MBA course is the networking opportunities, an MBA from a distance can provide the same benefit? The Academic Director of MBA distance at Online Business School, and Associate Professor of Operations Management, explains how an MBA from a distance is not a solitary experience.Times have changed enormously. Now that the Internet has made communication faster and more reliable, has opened a wide range of possibilities to communicate more effectively with the faculty and, perhaps most importantly, with other students. One of the most important aspects of an MBA is the opportunity to develop their interpersonal skills and at the same time the new network that will help your future career. Full Time MBA students benefit immediately from new friendships and business knowledge during their studies, this is especially useful for those wishing to change careers and need to build new contacts. Many MBA students at a distance, rather than interested in making a career within the click of their work, they prefer to study part-time and have more time to labor relations and their existing networks. Maintain existing social networks can also be an advantage during the study, for example by working with people with whom you work and maybe they're studying for another MBA course.The answers some important questions that clarify what forms of social interaction at a distance MBA.1. What are the opportunities to meet other students?The distance students are often gathered in study groups of 10-12 people. The group is usually composed of people who live relatively close to each other, so as to facilitate regular meetings. Many of the courses organized seminars or classes on weekends in summer, during which students can meet and know personally. These periods are a great opportunity to create and develop networks of informal study groups. If you are interested, you can also join groups of students in different formats within the same Distance learning MBA. Generally, you can take classes full time or join the intensive modular weeks of study. In fact, some schools are very flexible in this type of aggregation between different types of students.2. If you live far away, I can still work with other students?Students in Full Time courses exploit the interludes between lessons to discuss informally about what they're working. Similarly, students of distance learning courses should make the most of the Internet to create working groups. By participating in these working groups could discuss the study materials and help to better compressed lesson content. At Online Business School, we have online forums for each subject and each task. Students are encouraged to use them and work together when, for example, are learning financial accounting or when they are working on a particular task. Can post specific questions on what they can not figure out for themselves, for example: "I do not understand the table 3.2. Can anyone explain it? ". This helps the students' informal aggregation. In many cases, you can also participate in cafes and social areas, where students can organize meetings, develop business relationships or just talk about sports!3. There are activities to play as a team?The full time MBA courses require many simulations of group and team work, and in my experience are very dynamic, exciting, and important for learning. They are therefore missed in a Online MS in IT: fortunately, the technology allows more and more group activities in the virtual world, often in real time. Many schools have developed games on the web and business simulations to solve in groups. Some courses may also require students located in different parts of the world to compile all the reports, using mainly forum and email. My experience in observing this process and in assessing the results of this type of work makes me believe that exercises of this kind offer an excellent practice of interaction among colleagues and build contacts. During these exercises, each participant accepts responsibility for a certain part of the project and meets the deadline that the group is given, the standard that has been agreed by all. The same tensions and social dynamics that occur in virtual teams, just like a real team. A disadvantage of these working groups is that participants are often very different time zones, and to work together may come across having to wake up at 3 am!