Abstract
Business education has been currently challenged by the fast introduction of online learning platforms for students enrolled in higher education who had been previously used only face-to-face interaction, raising questions about the sustainability of online education. This new learning environment creates a different path for students managing their knowledge, who, due to the influence of online experiences, could develop different skills with different outcomes for their chances of employment. This study analyses knowledge management of business students in an online education setting to discover its influence on students’ perception of both their general employment chances, and specifically in online businesses. To conduct the study, we opted for a quantitative research design based on a questionnaire applied between November and December of 2020, which resulted in valid responses from 256 Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree students. In line with the research hypotheses, correlation, reliability tests and logistic regression were used to perform data analysis. The results clearly indicate that students’ perception of their employment chances depend on the increasing score of knowledge acquisition, knowledge revision, conceptual change and knowledge application, independently and under the action of control variables. Additionally, knowledge application proved to be an important determinant for students’ perception of their employment chances in online businesses.
Highlights
Introduction published maps and institutional affilThe COVID-19 pandemic brought new needs to the world of education—maskwearing and keeping social distance—universities having adapted to new realities by transferring courses that had been entirely taught on-site into online environments
In order to achieve this, we intend to answer the following research questions (RQs): RQ1: Have business students adapted their ways of managing knowledge for online education in a manner that supports their chances of employment, in general, and in online businesses, in particular?
RQ2: Have the ways of managing their knowledge during online education made business students better prepared for employability in online businesses?
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic brought new needs to the world of education—maskwearing and keeping social distance—universities having adapted to new realities by transferring courses that had been entirely taught on-site into online environments. It has been a major change for both most professors and students, since online learning had not been the most popular form of study. Learning in this new context raised a set of specific challenges to the way students manage their learning process. According to Tarabasz et al (2018), business students are prepared to work in the virtual environments through interacting with artificial intelligence, ubiquitous iations.
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