Distributed learning IIM Bangalore: An evaluation

Abstract

Starting with the 1990s, technologies have been increasingly employed by universities worldwide to mediate learning. Several educationists (see Noble , for example) have criticized moves by academic institutions to harness the power of technology as attempts to “commoditize instruction.” Initiatives such as the £62m e-UK project met with failure, primarily because it relied on fully online delivery. Taking these views into consideration, the Distributed PGSEM Mode was conceived to offer a program that was in full parity with its counterpart that operated in fully collocated mode at the Bangalore campus.