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The 2009 global recession forced corporations world-wide to seriously explore the option of blended and online executive education in order to minimize the travel cost involved in bringing all the participants together in conventional face-to-face executive training settings. In this vein, some of them tried to completely do away with face-to-face instruction by replacing it with synchronous online lecturing tools in hybrid executive education programs. However, the end-results in terms of participant engagement and retention in many such instances were not encouraging, thus highlighting the significance of conventional face-to-face instruction in hybrid programs. This paper builds a case around how the inclusion of face-to-face instruction increases the success rate of executive education programs in terms of student retention proportional to its blending share by citing several on-ground comparable illustrations from a global executive education provider.
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Bedi, K. (2012). The Significance of Face-to-Face Instruction in Hybrid Executive Education. In: Cheung, S.K.S., Fong, J., Kwok, LF., Li, K., Kwan, R. (eds) Hybrid Learning. ICHL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7411. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32018-7_14
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