The online courses in this program are delivered primarily through an asynchronous mode of communication. That is, the student is not expected to be online at any certain point in time and the majority of the communication between students and students and students and faculty does not occur in real-time. E-mail and threaded discussions are both asynchronous communication tools and they are used extensively in online courses.

Course Schedule

Courses do however follow the schedule of the regular academic term. Students are expected to complete assignments and engage in other instructional activities by certain deadlines, as prescribed in a course syllabus.

Recognizing that the main benefit to students of online learning is the convenience and flexibility it affords, the courses are designed to achieve a balance between providing such convenience and providing quality, valuable, and rigorous business education and training.

Delivery Method

Depending upon the objectives of a course and the needs of the students in the course, some faculty may decide to plan educational activities that require real-time or synchronous communication. If such activities are graded components, faculty are required to provide students with different scheduling options to participate in them. This maintains a degree of convenience and flexibility, while allowing for the benefits of real-time communication. Chat, teleconference, and virtual classrooms are synchronous communications tools used in online courses.

Additionally, the courses employ various forms of media to present and convey instructional content. The types of media used vary depending upon the objectives of the course and the teaching style of the professor. In general, the courses contain audio-visual lectures, video illustrations and cases, interactive exams/quizzes, virtual labs in the form of live client-server environments, and other interactive content.