E-Commerce

The appearance of e-commerce is shifting in a present scenario towards the necessity and requisite. Educational Institutions like Indira Gandhi National Open University which is pioneer in self paced learning and technology enabled learning.The distinguish corporate houses are trying to educate and train learners, students and employees in e-commerce applications and technology, so that it becomes part and parcel in their day-to-day learning and usages. Since e-commerce is in a nascent stage and varying so rapidly, organizations face numerous challenges, and there are prospects in developing curricula for e-commerce in a big way.The world is experiencing speedy changes in the knowledge landscape.

With various dramatic scientific and technological advances, such as the rise of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, many unskilled jobs worldwide may be taken over by machine and robots and in present scenario collaborative effort of Robots and Human known as Cobots.Keeping in mind framework of National Education Policy (NEP), School of Management Studies had initiated a Skill Enhancement course to look closely into the development of curricula and teaching methods for E-commerce processes, practices, and technologies with an intention to imbibe skills among its students and youth, with a greater emphasis on the development of employment opportunities and research activities.BCOS-184 is one of the Skill Enhancement (4 credits) elective courses that falls under 4th Semester of B.Com (G) programme offered under CBCS scheme. The main objective of this course is to familiarize the learners with the knowledge and understanding of E-commerce. This course by and large makes learners acquainted with the contemporary ways of doing business and emphasizes more on internet based business and their set-up. The entire 15 units have been bifurcated into 5 blocks. Course Credit: 04