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MOOCs at Work: What Induces Employer Support for Them?

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dc.contributor.authorHamori, Monika
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dc.date.accessioned2024-11-12T17:21:08Z
dc.date.available2024-11-12T17:21:08Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-21
dc.description.abstractMassive open online courses (MOOCs) are the learning technology with the fastest adoption rates in recent years, and they have the potential to transform corporate development practices. There is, however, only fragmented evidence on how employers use MOOCs. This paper relies on human capital theory to formulate hypotheses about the antecedents of employer support for MOOCs. It tests the hypotheses using data from a survey of MOOC learners and secondary data on the courses and on learners’ countries. The results confirm that small employers that lack the scale to invest in in-company formal training are more likely to provide support for MOOCs than their larger counterparts, and that some organizations grant learners time off from work for MOOCs with not only core, but also non-core but still job-relevant content. Overall, however, employers fail to capitalize on low-cost MOOCs to compensate for a lack of formal training. On the contrary, what little MOOC support they offer goes to executives and full-time, rather than part-time employees.
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dc.identifier.citationHamori, M. (2021). MOOCs at work: what induces employer support for them?. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(20), 4190-4214. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2019.1616593
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2019.1616593
dc.identifier.issn14664399
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3342
dc.issue.number20
dc.journal.titleThe International Journal of Human Resource Management
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final4214
dc.page.initial4190
dc.page.total36
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.departmentHuman Resources & Organisational Behaviour
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Business School
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en
dc.subject.keywordTraining and development
dc.subject.keywordOnline learning
dc.subject.keywordHuman capital theory
dc.titleMOOCs at Work: What Induces Employer Support for Them?
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