Enhancing the Student Engagement in Executive Education: Empirical Study from Teaching of Supply Chain Management
摘要
Working professionals who pursue education programmes along with their employment have quite different learning needs as compared to those of the on-campus students. These students can have a lower attention span or lower engagement in the classroom because of having other responsibilities of work-life and family. They also can have higher expectations from the instructor in terms of the learnings to be obtained since they have already acquired some basic knowledge over the years of experience. This study aims to investigate the influence of a few pedagogical interventions that were used while teaching the “Supply Chain Management” course in BITS Pilani Work-Integrated Learning Programs. The effectiveness of such pedagogical interventions was measured through a structured survey by comparing the responses given by the students to this course with the ones given to the other courses without such interventions. Two techniques of ANOVA and t test for equality of means have been applied to validate the hypothesis, and it is found that the stated pedagogical interventions resulted in statistically significant improvement in student engagement.