The document summarizes the BizMOOC project, which aimed to raise awareness of MOOCs' potential for businesses, universities, and society across Europe. It provides an overview of the project goals, partners, and pilot MOOCs developed. Key findings from evaluating the pilot MOOCs with participants and experts include that employees prefer self-directed learning with MOOCs but companies require a change in culture to fully support this. The project highlights a bottom-up movement of lifelong learners adopting MOOCs for skills development and sees potential if barriers and misperceptions can be addressed. All results will be published openly on the MOOC Book website.

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Quality framework for cross-sectorial and cross-
institutional MOOCs
Aarhus, 11 October 2018
Darco Jansen
EADTU
Maastricht, Netherlands

3. Knowledge Alliance to enable a European-wide exploitation of the potential of MOOCs for
the world of business (562286-EPP-1-2015-1-AT-EPPKA2-KA)
Funding Scheme: Erasmus+, KA2 – Knowledge Alliances
Project Duration: 36 months, 1/1/2016 – 31/12/2018
Grant: € 758.264 plus own contribution by partners
Coordinator: FH JOANNEUM, University of Applied Sciences, Graz
11 full partners:
Open University (UK), University de Alicante (ES), Burgas Free University (BG), University of Economics
Krakow (PL), AVL List GmbH (AT), Hasso-Plattner-Institute (DE), DIDA srl (IT), Košice IT Valley (SK), The
National Unions of Students in Europe (BE), EADTU (NL)
www.bizmooc.eu | www.mooc-book.eu | facebook.com/Bizmooc | twitter.com/Bizmoocbook

4. The Aims of BizMOOC
• Raise awareness of MOOC and their
potential in Universities, businesses and
society across Europe;
• Provide tools and resources to empower
the use of MOOC for CPD, increase
employability and develop
entrepreneurship.
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5. 1. Learning with MOOC for Professional Development
2. How to generate innovative ideas and how to make them
work
3. Intrapreneurship: Make your Business Great Again
Pilot MOOCs
http://bizmooc.eu/pilot-moocs/
Evaluation with participants - experts -
focus groups

6. Quality Assurance spectrum

7. QA MOOC production

8. Pre-production phase

9. Agreement beforehand on priorities of quality
assurance and evaluation procedures

10. QA and evaluation in 6 steps

11. Review of Design

12. Review by external experts

13. Evaluation by participants

14. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
Employees prefer to stay private and self-determined when it
comes to learning
Experts see a high potential in MOOCs as a complementary HR
offer, but a demand for change of company culture & adaption
Bottom-up participation resolves administrative key barriers
for companies and wrong perception/expectations
HR managers´ unawareness can be solved by using the
experience of MOOC-learning employees
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15. HIGHLIGHTS
Significant bottom-up movement from professional lifelong learners in
MOOCs observed
Employees are adopting MOOCs for a self-directed upgrade of job-related
skills
Unlocks further potential: complementary HR offers, resolving key barriers
and wrong expectations
Demand for a change of company culture and larger adaptability of MOOCs
All results and outcomes will be published with an open license on
www.mooc-book.eu
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16. FREE ONLINE RESOURCE DEDICATED TO MOOCS
FOR BUSINESSES, WORKFORCE AND
UNIVERSITIES
WWW.MOOC-BOOK.EU
THE MOOC BOOK
BIZMOOC CORE RESULT

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