". A NEW WAY TO LEARN COLLEGE OF ENHANCES BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MBA PROGRAM WORDS Hannah Hitchcox I I PHOTOS Abigail Cooper 0 n Oct. 6, 2017, Harding's College of Business Administration (COBA) announced the launch of the enhanced Master of Business Administration (MB ) graduate program, which brought many changes to the current MBA program. ccording to COBA Dean Allen Frazier, changes co the program included a fully online curriculum, nationally recognized Quality Matters (Q I) certified cla ses and more interaction opportunities for rudents and teachers. •~ hen you go to other place and you ee Q 1, you kn wit ha been through a rigorou process of writing,' Frazier aid. ''The classe are more interacti e and \: e're requiring a ynchronou event with each cour e which means the [faculty] and students will be live with one another." s director of e-learning and multimedia systems, Paula Kirby implemented the QM standard acros the online cour e Harding offered and already saw an overwhelmingly positive re ponse to the new standard for online course . This was evident at the faculty technology showcase in eptember, in which profe sors , ho taught online QM courses shared their experiences using the program. "The overwhelming answer from everyone on the panel is 'because we designed our cour es \vith this team through the QM standards, when ] tarted the class as an instructor, I had nothing to do but interact with my students,"' Kirby said. "I didn't have to fix the content or the calendar, the courses were ready to go. That attested to the value of grmving through that standard." Harding alumnu and current MB srudent oah tyle cho e to pursue an MBA at Harding becau·e of hi previou experience with Harding bu ine profe sor and the lowered cost per hour of the program. ''E ery single profe or that I ha,·e had in the IB program has busine experience, and it hows in the cla room" tyle aid. "It wa a true ble ing that they reduced the cost per hour in the MBA program a year before I started." ccording to Frazier, the enhanced MB program gave srudents an opportunity to receive an education that offered an interactive and in-depth analy is of the busine industry, teaching srudents key qualities that allowed them t succeed in any field. ''All the kills of communication, decision making, motivati n, leadership [are] not just business principles," Frazier said. "[They] are things that y u need in every discipline across the world as you work." I Master of Business Administration student Letha Bell works on assignments while relaxing on a sofa at Starbucks on Nov. 10, 2017. The enhanced MBA program allowed students to take all of heir courses online at their convenience. // Photo by Abigail Cooper I G) :JJ )> 0 C )> -i m -u :JJ 0 G) :JJ )> ~ (f) :::::::: .... 0 .......
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