ACTIVITY BASED LEARNING IN BUSINESS SCHOOLS: AN OBSERVATION AT ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF BHUTAN

Abstract

An educational process or procedure intended to stimulate learning through actual experience is known as activity based learning. From pure science courses to application oriented courses like B.E to B. Tech and B.COM/B.Com Honours to BBA, M.Com to M.B.A is considered a step towards activity based learning. It was also felt by commerce practitioners in the field that commerce students were not in a position to implement their knowledge in real life situations. Today, activity based business learning is being practiced world over. Harvard Business School, Ivy College, and IIM Ahmedabad are few examples. There is only one Business college under Royal University of Bhutan having more than 1100 students and imparting education under BBA and B.com courses with specialization in the fields of HR, IT, Finance, Marketing, Tourism, and accounting. Different activities are being undertaken to facilitate learning of these students including examples, illustrations, exercises/practical problems, seminars, case studies, debate, projects, industrial tours, internships, preparation of video clips etc. The proposed paper intends to investigate role of these activities in helping the learners to prepare themselves for their future assignments as business managers, entrepreneurs etc.