Running head: BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSYTEM 1

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Students name

University affiliation
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PEST MODEL
Political
Political tensions between governments
may lead to reduced number of
international students coming into
Australia.
Digital natives naturally eschew
traditional modes of delivery in
preference for digital conferencing.
Accreditation of online delivery should
be guided by education policy
formulated and implemented by the
government.
Most governments of foreign countries
have placed a strict process of
acquiring visas making it difficult for
students to travel to Australia.
The Australian government changing
the immigration policy brought along
unintended crisis which caused decline
in the number of foreign students
coming into the country.
Social
Community expectations about
convenience/ access to education
services shifts toward online delivery.
The devastating impact of corona virus
has encouraged most schools to avoid
face to face contact between teachers
and students.
Students attitude towards online
learning and accepting to communicate
with their students through online
platforms. Online learning is driven by
social change.
It also reduces human interaction.
Students who attend face- to-face
classes have a chance to interact with
other people within the institution.
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Economic
Downturn in local home economies
could make it difficult for foreign
students to afford to live and study in
Australia.
Poor exchange rates against Australian
dollar could make it difficult for foreign
students to afford to live and study in
Australia.
High initial cost, although online
learning is cheaper than face-to-face
learning, there is always high upfront
cost since students must have access to
electronic devices making it difficult
for some students to access.
PEST
Technology
Technology to support the transition to
online service delivery is available and
affordable.
Available technologies are compatible
with the existing IS/IT environment and
the implementation of these
technologies (if in-house hosting is
preferable) presents a low risk.
The presents of new and cheaper
technology are essential for adapting
online learning. Students are able to use
the fast technology.
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SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths
Long standing experience in online tertiary
education delivery.
Staff experienced in online education delivery.
Maintaining both Online learning and physical
learning is more flexible and efficient. This is
because students get to choose the mode of
studies they prefer.
Piloted and have an understanding on National
Learning Management System of Australia.
Blended learning enhances performance because,
it fosters self-management of studies.
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Weaknesses
Low level of staff engagement/ Poor staff morale
post restructure- transition to online services may
require staff to work outside of work hours or on
activities not included in their employment
workloads.
Introduction of online may require extra resources
to manage. This includes training both students and
teachers, software, hardware money and time to
develop learning content and systems.
Class room community is lost when full transition
to online learning. Students may like being with
their friends in school that sitting alone in a quiet
room with a computer.
Lack of quality materials for E-learning.
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Opportunities Threats

Long standing experience in online tertiary Technology vendors / third parties may offer
education opportunities to focus online education learning management platforms as cloud services
to subject areas and disciplines traditionally as thus reducing the capital investment barriers to
seen in Swinburne strengths. entry into online education market.
e-learning perceived as ineffective by the
National Learning management System is community.
developed. Students characters and behavior maybe
unsupervised fully.
Many personnel and students are trained on IT Internet and power failure may cause some students
usage. to miss classes.
There is development of online learning content.
Extension of reach and mobility. Teaching and
learning can be successful at any place.
Technology expansion is caused by this
introduction.
Many students can be enrolled to study because
online management of students is cheaper than it
is physically.
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Reflection

PEST and SWOT models are strategic planning tools that are used to identify important

elements that affects the performance or the environment to which business operate. The

strengths of this models are that they give deeper understanding of the business environment.

In this case, I have understood the different factors why there is need to adopt the online

learning style. The most influential factors that significantly affect E-learning are well

presented in the two models. Another strength I have identified is that this model can manage

large pool of data. Schools are large institutions that are affected by various factors. These

models can easily simplify its processing. Although it is advantageous, it also has

weaknesses. For instance, PEST analysis is limited to assessment of external environment

making the results obtained to be incomplete. On the other hand, SWOT analysis lacks

objectivity and oversimplification. Although it is good to simplify, this model encourages

people to overlook at important factors. It is also fond of biases especially when dealing with

issues of personal interest. In education sector, this PEST model can be used identify the

external factors that directly or indirectly affect the decisions made. Such issues have

influenced the decision to introduce online classes at Swinburne. On the other hand, SWOT is

key to identifying internal factors that affects the decisions made in school. The opportunities

and threats are employed from the PEST model.

For strategic planning, students can deepen their knowledge and skills by experiencing a

more practical and critical approach to develop and implement functioning strategies.

Through the employment of this models, we will learn how strategic plans are aligned and

integrated with business plans. These models will also equip us with knowledge of analyzing

the organization’s internal and external environment. As leaders, students having good

knowledge of the model can communicate effectively and collaboratively work with other

team members.
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Recommendation

I recommend that Swinburne University should maintain both physical and online learning

model.

Based on PEST, the social issue of coronal virus is the main reason to decongest universities

therefor the need for online classes.

A weakness of online classes is the loss of community class. human interaction is very

essential therefore there is need to maintain physical model.

Based on my reflection, Swinburne university should analyze the attitude of students towards

the learning model of their choice.