ATTITUDE OF MANAGEMENT STUDENTS' FROM NORTH KARNATAKA TOWARDS E-LEARNING "AN EMPIRICAL STUDY"

Internet has made itsentryin almost all the domains of human endeavor. Be it Commerce, Literatttre, or Astrology or be it Technology- we find that all the areas have got themselves dramatically transformed due to the impact of Information and Communication Technology (JCT) in general, and Internet in particula.,_r. Education is no exception to this phenomenon. 'Learning - Teaching - Evaluation' process is getting radically transformed - thanks to capabilities of Internet. Internet as the media has got the potential of making educational process truly 'Student centric'. This is the technology, which has the capability of nullifying the constraints of conventional educational delivery and evaluation system. This is the tool for making education available at any time, at any place. Besides, the learner can learn and get evaluated at any pace! Things those were unthinkable before the advent of Internet are very much possible today in this Digital Age. MBA/BBA Courses offered in different B-Schools are meant for preparing the professionals with right knowledge, skills and attitudes for managing business entities. • Though the number of management graduates and postgraduates churned out every year is on increase - there is a great deal of concern with regards to quality. On one extreme we have premium brands, while the majority are at the other extreme -which come in substandard category. One of the reasons for such a variation is lack of uniformity in quality of academic inputs at various B-schools. Internet can be used to offer a high quality and uniform input for the students of different institutes, so that the quality of the students passing out can be enhanced. In spite of its obvious advantages over the conventional mode of education, the speed with which the new technology is getting adopted and as'similated is rather slow. eLearning in business education is still in the nascent stage of development in India. One of the factors for the slow pace of its adoption is the attitude of the students towards Internet as tool of education. The present study aims at ascertaining tti-e ature of perceptions and attitudes of the MBA students towards the Internet as an educational delivery and evaluation mechanism.