Narrative 6-3 Athabasca University Has Evolved Over Its Nearly 50-Year History. Course

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Narrative 6-3
Athabasca University has evolved over its nearly 50-year history. Course delivery has evolved along with Athabasca University-from text-based learning modules to video cassettes,partnerships with educational television,and now to an internet-enabled teaching and learning model that coexists with the text and video-based independent learning models. In 1994,Athabasca pioneered an online Executive MBA program. In addition to innovating learning models,Athabasca developed a Centre for Distance Education,which is globally known for its research into distance learning and offers graduate programs in the field.
-Refer to Narrative 6-3. Which of the following terms applies to why Athabasca developed the online executive MBA in 1994?

• A)technological subtraction  
• B)technological discontinuity  
• C)process obsolescence  
• D)process addition

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Definitions:

Subjective Approaches

Methods based on personal opinions, interpretations, points of view, or judgments rather than on objective or external data.

WACC

Weighted Average Cost of Capital, a calculation that reflects the average rate that a company is expected to pay its security holders to finance its assets.

Weighted Average

A calculation that takes into account the varying degrees of importance of the numbers in a dataset, assigning weights accordingly.

Cost of Capital

The expected returns an investor requires to make an investment worthwhile, often used as a benchmark to evaluate the viability of investment projects.