After a one-time intensive lecture series for each course, which consists
of several evenings and a Saturday, the student can work with the web-based
learning system. This gives them access their learning material, undertake
their assignments, share ideas, do collaborative work with professors
and fellow learners and coordinate their learning at their pace and convenience.
The learning process is not just limited to the classroom, but actually
to where the learner works or at home allowing them to apply what they
learn directly to their job.
In fact, many of the assignments are focused around the learner's job
and the problems that they meet. The application of technology and E-Business
solutions are developed to enable them to rely on the on-line access to
learning material, the University professors and coaching staff, and other
learning managers and executives within the program. In this way, they
can share their challenges and listen to the suggestions and ideas of
managers over the web-based forums or chat sessions where these ideas
are freely shared and discussed. This helps them to apply their learning
to the real-life circumstances of the environment, in which they are working.
One of the students had just started the program in Australia and was
re-assigned to Singapore, where he travels Asia and North America frequently.
He said, "I would not be able to do this with any other program, since
I'm not in any one place long enough to take the classes required for
them." Other students, who are just starting families or working hard
at careers, cannot take the time out to follow the rigid schedules of
weekly in-class sessions. Their time is valuable and the E-Learning program
allows them to balance their course learning with their other duties as
parents, employees and a social life.
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