Knowledge Alliance to enable a European-wide exploitation of the potential of MOOCs for the world of business Erasmus Project

Project Title

Knowledge Alliance to enable a European-wide exploitation of the potential of MOOCs for the world of business

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Open and distance learning; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

‘Massive Open Online Courses’ (MOOCs) caused a major impact on universities worldwide. Recently, there is huge potential seen in the application of MOOCs for upgrading labour-market relevant skills. Initiatives in the EU exist, but remain isolated, both geographically and per sector. They lack impact on the HEI area as a whole, and do not include the business community to a sufficient extent.The BizMOOC Knowledge Alliance addressed these gaps and major challenges and contributed to this uptake of MOOCs for business use. This was achieved by creating common standards and frameworks that promote MOOCs for workplace teaching & training. It joined experts from universities, businesses and networks/NGOs from 11 countries to achieve this goal by the following key activities & results:- Analysis of needs, gaps and reasons for 3 target groups (non-participation of European universities, businesses and learners) based on 106 interviews and 1.193 survey respondents,- Elaboration of an interactive ‘MOOC BOOK’ (6.825 users and 86 institutions) for universities, businesses, society and policy-makers containing 3 set of guidelines, 14 discussion papers, 50 lessons learnt, 25 recommendations and 20 good practices, based on a mixed-methods approaches analyzing 55 expert inputs (interviews and focus Groups), surveys with 891 and 409 learners, 3 MOOC pilots, peer-review, 2 external evaluators and a QA board with 7 external experts,- Development of 3 different MOOCs catering Lifelong-Learning key competences relevant for the labour market with 5561 enrolments from 98 countries and 3969 active users.All activies were framed with comprehensive quality assurance, evaluation, dissemination, exploitation and sustainability activities. By a multiple channel target group approach – nested in the MOOC BOOK – BizMOOC brought together a strong stakeholder community which can jointly further boost MOOCs for business use and exploit the full potential of MOOCs. All key results are will be maintained beyond project lifetime and are accompanied by follow-up activities.

Project Website

http://www.bizmooc.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 758264 Eur

Project Coordinator

FH JOANNEUM GESELLSCHAFT MBH & Country: AT

Project Partners

• BURGASKI SVOBODEN UNIVERSITET
• VERENIGING VAN EUROPEAN DISTANCE TEACHING UNIVERSITIES
• AVL LIST GMBH
• KOSICE IT VALLEY ZPO
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE
• THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
• UNIWERSYTET EKONOMICZNY W KRAKOWIE