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From FT
Online teaching is the staple of many MBA programmes, but recent moves by a number of schools may herald a global shift towards a reliance on technological tutoring. “It's integral to our teaching methods and to our programme designs,” says John Gallagher, associate dean for EMBA programmes at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in North Carolina. “We'd be in trouble if we didn't have it.”
EMBA participants are students who bring experience from their work environment to share with each other when they meet, says Prof Gallagher, and Duke has long seen the internet as a way to amplify the value of those physical meetings. And when students are away from the classroom, technology supports their collaborative projects and relationship building.
As the technology matures, schools are deriving benefits less from revolutionary developments than from the steady increase in reliability
