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Power of Technology to the MBA students :

Technology in the present scenario has changed many things, majorly the way of doing things.
MBA student’s /aspirants/ graduates are now doing multitasking and enhancing their effectiveness and quality of work with advanced technology. With these new methods the sphere of creativity and speed of work has also reached to newer dimensions.

Students are actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, share or display information. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills in a different way altogether and more effectively.

In gregarious way the technology is helping the genesis:
These are the combination of hardware and software with the revolutionary impact of the internet.

Internet

Ø  Social networking sites: Many social networking sites are there which people are using for the various learning and knowledge sharing purposes.
Social media can have 2 broad categories: Professional networks and Personal network. Professional networks would include LinkedIn, other profession related community portals & blogs such as this one- www.freegdtopicsntips4mba.blogspot.com.
These sites are being used for the various purposes; like sharing the files on presentations, reports, internship project files, research works, thesis, dissertations, pdf files Etc.
Some personal social media portals are Facebook, Foursquare. Micro-blogging portals such as Twitter are also gaining much popularity in learning terms.

Ø  Search engines – which students use to explore various takes on the particular topic, they are updating themselves with the latest developments in the world environment.
Through this students visit home sites of various Government departments, companies fetch information from these sites about the companies, the work and other related information.
Ø  Encyclopedia: Students use free encyclopedias, which provide the cluster of knowledge about anything they want to learn about.

Ø  E-library: Students now visit online libraries and download e-books, seek review from experts, search books, and compare different authors.     

Ø  Emails - students ask e-notes from teachers on e-mail, share these notes with their peers

Ø  E-learning: Students use online tuitions via live video calling and pre recorded videos, students are using these learning methods from different countries as per their requirements and convenience. Example- Indian math and basic science classes are very popular now days in UK, US because of high quality and low cost benefits  

Software’s: Latest software to enhance their creative skills for- advertisements, marketing, event management. Sharing and uploading the information, ideas, knowledge Etc.  Example Dropbox, Evernote etc. are there.
Mobile software’s has also empowered the students in terms of knowledge, like- mobile dictionary, text supporting software’s for PDF, MS-word,  other internet software’s and other applications like maps, g-time etc.Various apps and software help to prepare notes and save them on internet, to be accessed and edited from anywhere and any device.
    
Hardware:
Latest gadgets like – I. phone, smart phone, tablets, notebooks, laptops, data card-3g/4g etc are being used by the students for the various purposes like for giving presentations, preparing reports and accessing and sharing information.
With the help of technology students are fetching and creating new opportunities, are reaching new heights, demarking the new parameter for the performance and success. Their contribution in education, economic and social development has been increased significantly. With the balanced use of traditional methods of learning and technology learning the youth is embarking new dimensions.      

Well-said by someone: The technology has been an empowering tool to the students. They have a voice and it's not in any way secondary to anybody else's voice. It's an equal voice. So that's incredibly positive. Motivation to use technology is very high.