Participation and Achievement in Enterprise MOOCs for Professional Development: Initial Findings from the openSAP University

Egloffstein, Marc; Schwerer, Florian

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-15130-0_6

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“…One suggestion, therefore, is that providers of VET or professional development MOOCs should take adequate actions not to fall behind (cf. Paton, Fluck, & Scanlan, 2018), especially when following the demands for smaller course sizes and tailored "learning nuggets" that seem to evolve around MOOCs in professional contexts (e.g., Egloffstein & Schwerer, 2019). In contrast, academic business MOOCs can be considered suitable for professional learning and development given that these MOOCs seem to align better with the instructional quality standards established in the field.…”

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Instructional Quality of Business MOOCs: Indicators and Initial Findings

Egloffstein¹,

Koegler²

2019

OLJ

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The concept of instructional quality is central to the design and evaluation of massive open online courses (MOOCs). As MOOCs from the field of business and management are gaining importance both in academia and professional learning, questions on how to determine and improve the quality of these offerings arise. In this paper, we introduce an instrument for evaluating MOOCs against a set of theoretically grounded instructional design principles. After an overview of related research, we describe the concise course scan rubric and its application in detail. A pilot study with N = 101 business MOOCs reveals their rather low overall instructional quality. While most aspects of structuredness and clarity are rated high, the implementation of instructional design principles falls notably behind. The implications from our study point toward a learner-oriented notion of instructional quality and individualized learning and increased learner support in business MOOCs.

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Instructional Quality of Business MOOCs: Indicators and Initial Findings

Egloffstein¹,

Koegler²

2019

OLJ

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“…e majority of MOOC research and practice in the United States is concentrated in higher education and vocational training institutions [11][12][13]. When compared to the popularity of MOOC research in higher education, corporate MOOC research is still in its infancy.…”

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Construction and Application of Vocational Training Platform for Enterprise Employees

Yan

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are one of the most significant events in the history of education in the twenty-first century, not only tearing down university walls but also greatly increasing the sharing of high-quality educational resources and providing opportunities for everyone who wants to improve themselves. Access to tools for company personnel training and development is becoming increasingly widespread in the sharing economy. New requirements are put forward for enterprise staff training and development. MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is a new trend of vocational training in recent years. It is important to build a reasonable training incentive mechanism to match it. This paper constructs a two-tier principal-agent mapping among enterprises, training departments, and employees and conducts simulations. It is found that adjusting the pay for performance allocation factor, risk cost factor, and the cost of effort component might boost motivation of employees and thus enhance the organizational performance generated by MOOC training. Enterprises should develop a scientific and reasonable compensation mechanism to create a good training and learning atmosphere, standardize training programs and supporting evaluation mechanisms, maximize the efficacy of MOOC training, and remove hurdles in the training process for training departments and workers through advertising, subsidies, and the creation of training platforms.

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