«Flexible, self-directed and bottom-up: are employees overtaking their human resource departments with MOOCs?», eMadrid seminar on «MOOCs as part of the future of digital learning» at UNED, as part of LWMOOCS Conference

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Flexible, self-directed and bottom-up:
Are employees overtaking their Human
Resource departments with MOOCs?
Christian Friedl1, Thomas Staubitz2, Darco Jansen3
1 FH Joanneum - University of Applied Sciences Graz, Austria | 2 Hasso
Plattner Institute University of Potsdam, Germany | 3 European Association
of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) Maastricht, The Netherlands

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RESEARCH GAP
MOOCs are arriving to the business sector
MOOCs face barriers and (too) high
expectations from companies
Awareness among managers low, but
employees embrace MOOCs
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METHODOLOGY
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MOOC (n = 2906):
https://mooc.house/bizmooc2018

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THREE INSIGHTS
Employees prefer to stay private and self-determined
when it comes to learning
High potential as a complementary HR offer, but change
of company culture & more adaptability needed
HR managers´ unawareness can be solved by using the
experience of MOOC-learning employees
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TAKE AWAYS
Significant bottom-up movement from
professional lifelong learners in MOOCs observed
Tell me more: www.mooc-book.eu (part of the
BizMOOC project) > Version 2.0 coming
New project starting in January 2019: CORSHIP
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