Thesis Defense Notice:
ABSTRACT
DIGITAL LEARNING: EXPECTATION OF CONTEMPORARY WORKFORCE
Monday, November 20, 2017
2:00pm
Healey Library,
College of Management PhD Room
Vignesh Natarajan, B.TECH., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham ( India )
MBA, University of Massachusetts Boston
MS, University of Massachusetts Boston
Advised by Professor Romilla Syed
The advancement of technologies has disrupted and influenced most of the industry verticals. One of such a profound impact is on education especially how the digital is transforming the today’s learning and lays the foundation for rising tailored needs of different learners’ segments. It is critical for any digital learning providers to understand different segments of learners, their attitude towards e-learning platforms and objectives so that they can better serve the learners in an effective manner. This paper is an attempt to identify learners’ , who are in current workforce, attitude toward online courses, measure how much learners have used online courses for their education, determine which reasons learners used online course and identify the barriers of why learners have not taken online courses and the likeliness that learners would take online courses in the future. The data collection is a result of an online survey fielded to a randomly selected list of specific job board users.