Benefits of Online Teaching

Teaching online provides faculty members with opportunities to teach certain groups of students whom they might not be able to reach in residential classes. Many professors were interviewed in this regard. A majority of the interviewed professors appeared to think highly of the online MBA students, and viewed working with them as one of the major benefits they received from teaching online. As one interviewee noted, “I just really enjoyed the group of students.” A few of the commonly encountered characteristics of the online MBA students are presented below.

• Self-motivated. Many interviewees mentioned that the online MBA students were highly engaged and self-motivated in the learning process. As one professor argued, “MBA students are not just in the courses to complete the course. They are really in here because they want to learn a new set of materials.” This high drive exhibited by the online MBA students fueled the instructors as well. Put in another interviewee’s words, “their level of motivation helped keep my level of motivation high. It’s much harder, you know, when you’re staring at a class or dealing with a class, (wherein) you can’t get a response.” Many interviewees suggested that this characteristic of online MBA students, at least within this particular program, made online teaching “enjoyable” and “pleasurable.”
• From diverse backgrounds and experiences. Some interviewees claimed that the students’ diverse backgrounds made online teaching more interesting. As one faculty explained, “they are from vastly different backgrounds and areas of the world, and they bring a lot to hear. They can make some very nice comments and it’s interesting reading their papers.”
  
• More directly connected to the real world. Some faculty members noted that online MBA students tended to put what they learned from classes into practice more directly compared to residential students.Enroll with a top online MBA program or a online MBA degree program