Millennials: Entitled Networking Business Leaders

caroline akhras

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 226–234

Virtual workplaces are replacing the brick and mortar. In the global marketplace, local, regional, and multinational firms allocate virtual teams to address company transactions. Now an essential component in the competitive global environment,...

Topics: research, Evaluation, Social & Cultural Issues

Knowledge Management and Information Literacy: Are Business Students Well-Positioned?

Caroline Akhras

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 870–878

The study reviews knowledge management and information technology structural factors to determine the perceived impact of information literacy on academic performance inside a university as perceived by a sample of business faculty and students. The ...

Organizational Development: Moving Towards E-Learning

Caroline Akhras

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 2304–2313

The aim of this paper is threefold: to explore an impact of constantly changing circumstances in technology on organizations in the contemporary business-market; to clarify the role of e-learning therein; and to explore the managerial implications...

MBA On Line: Is Challenging Peer Work Motivating? Is It Mastered?

Caroline Akhras

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 21, No. 4 (November 2012) pp. 317–333

Deciding to go the extra mile to continue self-development does not necessarily mean learning to assimilate online technology into one’s field of expertise though it has been found that general-purpose social networking sites are a popular venue...

Can We Lead Change without Integrity?

Caroline Akhras

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 1016–1023

It is time to rethink leadership. We need to step outside the box; we need to rethink how to have people work with one another as morally upright problem solvers, rebuilding organization in the third millennium. Research holds that modern...

Topics: Evaluation, Implementation Examples & Issues, E-Learning in Developing Countries (Opportunities, Trends, Challenges, and Success Stories)

And What about Hope and Job Satisfaction When Paired with Business Leaders?

Caroline Akhras

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 1614–1620

Whether brick and mortar business or virtual, leaders work industriously to attain company goals and may play a dynamic role in shaping perceptions of positive organizational behavior. Hope has the potential to re engineer organizational structure...

Topics: Evaluation, Implementation Examples & Issues, E-Learning in Developing Countries (Opportunities, Trends, Challenges, and Success Stories)

MBA On Line:Is Challenging Peer Work Motivating? Is It Mastered?

Caroline Akhras

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 512–521

Deciding to go the extra mile to continue self-development does not necessarily mean learning to assimilate online technology into one’s field of expertise though it has been found that general-purpose social networking sites are a popular venue...

A Stepladder Towards Critical Thinking:Student Assessment and Instructional Redesign

Caroline Akhras

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 862–869

Critical thinking creates the teaching/learning differential shaping innovative proactive classrooms in cutting-edge universities. Students’ perception of critical learning taking place inside their immediate learning context is significant...

Virtual Classrooms and the Discussion Forum: A Net Benefit for Business Students

Caroline Akhras

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1752–1760

A serendipitous turning point in education may be in the outcomes of online collaborative work as it is social, dynamic, and multidimensional. Virtual classrooms and discussion forums are collaborative tools on Course Management Systems used in...

Collaboration: New Possibilities with Information Technology

Caroline Akhras

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2621–2628

This case study aims to determine business students’ perception of online collaboration pre/post a computer-assisted collaboration assignment. 15 students were randomly grouped and told to use computer-assisted-collaborative tool on Blackboard (Bb). ...

Rethinking Leadership--Digital Literacy and Authenticity

Caroline Akhras

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1743–1746

Digital literacy and authenticity seem to be critical areas in contemporary management. Business schools, multinational businesses, and global marketplaces seem to be contexts of collective intelligence mired in traditional contexts of learning...

Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

CMC in Business Courses: Are Students Today Digital Natives or Text Driven?

Caroline Akhras

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1746–1751

Business students are digitally-driven yet the business courses in the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics are text-driven. Proactive educational institutions are taking major steps in terms of building the technology infrastructure to...

And What about Hope and Job Satisfaction When Paired with Business Leaders?

Caroline Akhras

Global Learn 2015 (April 2015) pp. 265–271

Whether brick and mortar business or virtual, leaders work industriously to attain company goals and may play a dynamic role in shaping perceptions of positive organizational behavior. Hope has the potential to re engineer organizational structure...

Topics: Course, program, project, and other forms of evaluation, Culture, Behavior, Business, Leadership

Online Business Leadership, Is It Authority or Community Building?

Caroline Akhras

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 524–535

Leadership as a function of management is critical in attaining organizational objectives and in online teams leadership in the third millennium seems to hinge on efficient and effective communication. Moreover, Information communication technology (...

Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues, Social & Cultural Issues, research

Investing IT in Business Students: On Line Peer Work Is Worth That Extra Mile

Caroline Akhras

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1001–1008

It is held that today’s students tend to be tech-savvy, interrelating 24/7 with friends, family, and people around the world by chatting, audio-visually recording, posting pictures, blogging, and creating wikis. Studies have also found that not...

Collaboration: New Possibilities with Information Technology

Caroline Akhras

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 264–271

This case study aims to determine business students’ perception of online collaboration pre/post a computer-assisted collaboration assignment. 15 students were randomly grouped and told to use computer-assisted-collaborative tool on Blackboard (Bb). ...

New Age Leaders

Caroline Akhras

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 932–941

Leading change in established educational organizations requires an exceptional type of leadership. Research studies claim that legions of change makers in schools, colleges, and universities acknowledged stress, anger, conflict, and frustration as ...

Topics: Authentic, contextualized, and real-world learning