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Open Education – A Challenge for E-training

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Learning Technology for Education in Cloud – The Changing Face of Education (LTEC 2016)

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Information and communication technology is dramatically changing the world we live in. Over recent years, open resources and open education have been part of different initiatives and projects. Nowadays, information can be easily reached from different sources and knowledge can be acquired outside of the traditional bricks-and-mortar institutions. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are challenging higher education, however the experts and researchers are yet to reach a consensus on whether MOOCs will change the nature of higher education. This paper analyses the issues of whether MOOCs pose a threat to higher education institutions, if they are a feasible replacement for payable study programs or whether they support people willing to learn in their lifelong learning process. These questions are analyzed from a business perspective rather than from the point of formal (higher) education. We are asking if the MOOCs present the opportunity for in-house company training.

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Notes

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    Enterprises without financial sector with more than 10 persons employed.

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    https://www.udacity.com/.

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    https://www.coursera.org/.

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    https://www.edx.org/.

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    https://www.futurelearn.com/.

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    https://www.udacity.com/nanodegree.

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    https://www.coursera.org/about/partners.

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    https://www.class-central.com/subjects.

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    https://www.miriadax.net/es/cursos.

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    https://miriadax.net/web/guest/nuestros-numeros.

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    http://www.france-universite-numerique.fr/.

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    http://www.rwaq.org/.

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    https://www.xuetangx.com/.

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    https://www.mooc-list.com/languages.

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    Slovenia got 2 mio of citizens.

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    http://www.arnes.si/about-arnes/.

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    http://home.izum.si/izum/o_IZUMu/about_IZUM.asp.

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    http://izobrazevanje.izum.si/EntryFormDesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=22&type=web.

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    https://learn.moodle.net/.

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    http://curricu.me/.

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    The respondents could pick more than one answer.

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    Persons who are neither employed nor unemployed.

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    ANOVA regression analyses (Stepwise method) was used.

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    http://elearningindustry.com/9-free-moocs-for-corporate-training.

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    http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/about_this_portal.

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    http://business.iversity.org/en/#app-home-3.

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Florjančič, V. (2016). Open Education – A Challenge for E-training. In: Uden, L., Liberona, D., Feldmann, B. (eds) Learning Technology for Education in Cloud – The Changing Face of Education. LTEC 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 620. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42147-6_15

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