MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses)

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available to anyone who can sign up. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance in careers, and provide quality educational experiences to a certain extent. Millions of people around the world use MOOCs for learning and their reasons are various, including career development, career change, college preparation, supplementary learning, lifelong learning, corporate e-Learning and training, and so on

#ILoveMyJob: Drivers of Online Employer Brand Advocacy at a Multinational IT-Company

Objective of the Study The objective of the study was to evaluate what drives employer brand advocacy online at the case company, a Nordic-based multinational IT-company. Operating in an industry where the competition for attracting and retaining top talent is fierce, the case company seeks to make use of its employees to spread the word of the company as a preferable place of work. The study sought answers to the main research question: What drives employer brand advocacy online at a multinational IT company? and three subsequent sub questions: (1) What themes relating to the employer brand of the employer are employees at the case company willing to advocate for? (2) Which factors act as limiting aspects for employer brand advocacy online? and (3) Which motivators support employer brand advocacy at the case company? Methodology and Theoretical Framework The study was conducted as a single case study, combining data from semi-structured interviews and online material gathered from employees’ Twitter feeds. Five employees in the case company’s B2B unit were interviewed, with online material gathered from four employees. The theoretical framework includes three levels: (1) thematical topic of advocacy content, (2) limiting factors for advocacy online, and (3) motivational factors behind advocacy. Findings and Conclusions The study resulted in three main findings: (1) employees are most inclined to advocate for interest aspects of the employer brands, and unwilling to advocate for economic aspects, (2) choice of channel is the main factor limiting advocacy, with Twitter and LinkedIn identified as the most suitable channels for employer brand advocacy content, with Facebook deemed unsuitable for the purpose, and (3) advocacy being motivated mainly by two factors: altruism and ability to show expertise. These findings suggest that employer brand advocacy in the context of the case company can be used to communicate about the employer brand, with focus on interest topics. Furthermore, advocacy can be facilitated by focusing on channels that support advocacy, and encouraging employees to advocate by appealing to their willingness to help the employer or their desire to build their personal brand as experts within the industry

European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN). Conference Proceedings

Erasmus+ Programme of the European UnionThe powerful combination of the information age and the consequent disruption caused by these unstable environments provides the impetus to look afresh and identify new models and approaches for education (e.g. OERs, MOOCs, PLEs, Learning Analytics etc.). For learners this has taken a fantastic leap into aggregating, curating and co-curating and co-producing outside the boundaries of formal learning environments – the networked learner is sharing voluntarily and for free, spontaneously with billions of people.Supported by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Unioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Human Resources for Health: Overcoming the Crisis: Joint Learning Initiative

Presents findings and recommendations of the Joint Learning Initiative to identify strategies for healthcare workforce development in developing countries. Calls for action that engages workers, communities, national leadership, and global responsibility

The Future was a Riot: Causes of Youth Unemployment in Spain and Challenges to Immigration and the Welfare State in the Era of the Common Market (1999-2016)

The purpose of this thesis is to exam the causes behind unusually high youth unemployment in Spain, even after the 2007-8 financial crisis has subsided. The primary means of investigating these causes is through constructing a set of empirical models and then using these models to perform several time-series regressions to find whether changes in educational patterns, demographics, and immigration have had any concrete effect on the youth unemployment rate and social capital. Some qualitative work is done; particularly in describing the legal structure surrounding unemployment and in the description of the Spanish welfare state. In my research, I find that a change in educational patterns does not deeply impact youth unemployment, nor do demographic shifts. The collapse of the Spanish economy (in particular the housing market) has had a far more determinative effect than any of these factors named. Levels of immigration do bear a positive relationship with youth unemployment, but only for a period, and have no measurable effect on social capital and may in fact aid social cohesion to a small degree, given enough time. In conclusion, the causes of high Spanish youth unemployment are not being dealt with well by the present government and further research into this area (particularly in to the effects of reforms undertaken in 2010 and 2012) is warranted before any policy prescriptions are formulated

Knowledge and Management Models for Sustainable Growth

In the last years sustainability has become a topic of global concern and a key issue in the strategic agenda of both business organizations and public authorities and organisations. Significant changes in business landscape, the emergence of new technology, including social media, the pressure of new social concerns, have called into question established conceptualizations of competitiveness, wealth creation and growth. New and unaddressed set of issues regarding how private and public organisations manage and invest their resources to create sustainable value have brought to light. In particular the increasing focus on environmental and social themes has suggested new dimensions to be taken into account in the value creation dynamics, both at organisations and communities level. For companies the need of integrating corporate social and environmental responsibility issues into strategy and daily business operations, pose profound challenges, which, in turn, involve numerous processes and complex decisions influenced by many stakeholders. Facing these challenges calls for the creation, use and exploitation of new knowledge as well as the development of proper management models, approaches and tools aimed to contribute to the development and realization of environmentally and socially sustainable business strategies and practices

A Design-Based Research Study Examining The Impact Of Collaboration Technology Tools In Mediating Collaboration

ABSTRACT A DESIGN-BASED RESEARCH STUDY EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY TOOLS IN MEDIATING COLLABORATION by KECIA J. WADDELL December 2015 Advisor: Dr. Monica W. Tracey Major: Instructional Technology Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Interactive collaboration technologies have expanded users\u27 capabilities to collaborate and have driven pedagogical paradigm shifts toward more learner-centered and interactive teaching and learning. Online learners may be not sufficiently prepared for the level of collaboration fluency expected by a globally competitive digital distributed knowledge economy. This is largely due in part by how collaboration technologies is used towards impacting learning goals and outcomes in practice by online learners themselves or by deliberate instructional design of the online environment. The purpose of this design-based research study was three-fold: (1) examine collaboration by exploring the perceptions of adult online learners regarding collaboration technology use and of a series instructional intervention videos that supported tool use; (2) track the iterative design, development, implementation, and evaluation of instructional screencasts designed to demonstrate and support the use of dynamic text editor functions and multimedia features for authentic collaboration learning tasks and learner-driven discussion board communication in two online discussion forum platforms: Blackboard Learn (BB) and Google Groups (GG); and (3) determine the impact of the instructional intervention on our educational problem identified as a behavior: organic learner-driven online discussion board collaboration. Participants were purposive sample of online learners enrolled in five graduate-level instructional technology online courses. Quantitative survey and qualitative reflective journal data was gathered in a three phased feedback loop. Findings indicated that collaboration is first a mindset supported not only by collaboration technology tools or learner technological self-efficacy, but by deliberate instructional design mediated by the cultural environment and the social context of the activity system

Evaluation of the Open Data for Development Program : final report

The evaluation focuses on both accountability and learning, providing accountability to the program's management and organizational governance structures for program results. In order to inform future programming on open data for development (OD4D), it reflects upon OD4D implementation and themes. The evaluation report addresses five topics: (1) Results (2) Design (3) Management (4) Policy and (5) Gender. The program both created and or made substantial contributions to various initiatives that resulted in numerous products, diversified by geographical domain and type. These are reported on in terms of outputs and outcomes