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ByChristian Friedl

Woohah! BizMOOC in the Final Top3 of an international award

Fantastic news! Our Intrapreneurship MOOC made it in the Top 3 of the Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship Excellence Award at ECIE 2018 in Aveiro, Porto.

Out of 32 submission, 11 creative and high quality teaching approaches were selected for the Final round and invited to present their cases in Aveiro, Porto at the 13th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in front of an international jury. Chris and Agnes presented our MOOC on Intrapreneurship and even made it to the Top 3, where they got invited to do a second presentation to the whole conference audience before the conference closure. We feel extremely honoured to became part of this exclusive circle.

Besides, we also presented the poster “Rescue through the back-door: Can MOOCs become a large-scale bottom-up innovation driver in companies?”, based on BizMOOC results.

 

ByNina Trskova

BizMOOC Round Tables season!

With the BizMOOC round tables taking place all over the Europe, fall season is in full swing! We are busy with second edition of the MOOCBOOK and the Warsaw conference fast approaching. Very soon our German colleagues will speak at the openHPI where a forum took place last week.

ByChristian Friedl

National Round Table in Austria

36 guests, 4 key experts and 1 moderator – a mix of corporates, entrepreneurs, edupreneurs, policy-makers, lecturers, students etc. – had a lively discussion on 13th of September in Graz, Austria regarding “MOOCs – muss das sein” (“MOOCs – is this really a must”?). The Austrian BizMOOC round table introduced the participants to the core results of the project and followed-up with a discussion how the main project outcomes (especially the MOOC BOOK) and MOOCs in general could be uptaken on a broader scale for the benefit of all. We want to thank all the experts and guest for the valuable inputs and so positive feedback!!! 

ByChristian Friedl

BizMOOC in the final round of an International Teaching Award!

The MOOC on Intrapreneurship which we have created in the course of the BizMOOC Project is in the final round of 2018 Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship Excellence Awards of the ECEI!
We are presenting our case on 19 September at the 13th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Aveiro (PT) in front of a jury. Keep your fingers crossed, we will keep you updated:-)
ByNina Trskova

Facebook event for Cracow conference is live!

Happy to announce that the conference UPGRADING BUSINESS COMPETENCE GLOBALLY FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW has now its own Facebook event.

 

PLEASE CLICK HERE 

See you in Cracow!

ByChristian Friedl

BizMOOC going to Learning With MOOCs 2018 in Madrid

Exciting News! Our paper “Flexible, self-directed and bottom-up: Are employees overtaking their Human Resource departments with MOOCs?” based on BizMOOC research outcomes has been accepted at Learning with MOOCs 2018 taking place between 26th and 28th of September in Madrid! Three BizMOOC partners (FH Joanneum, HPI & EADTU) will be there to present and discuss our project findings – see you there as well?

 

 

ByChristian Friedl

BizMOOC @ conferences again

Again, the BizMOOC Team has handed submissions based on our project findings to MOOC key conferences – and they have already been accepted/are in the final stage of review:-)

Stay tuned, more exiting news regarding this will follow soon!

ByChristian Friedl

BizMOOC featured in the OpenUpEd Trend Report 2018

The 2018 OpenupEd Trend Report on MOOCs presents the latest innovations and developments in MOOCs from a European perspective. MOOCs, and open education in general, are providing new learning opportunities for millions of people. Investments in and the uptake of MOOCs are more and more significant worldwide. The article “Corporate MOOC Trends” is built on various BizMOOC findings and outcomes – check it our here: http://www.openuped.eu/images/Publications/The_2018_OpenupEd_trend_report_on_MOOCs.pdf

 

 

ByChristian Friedl

BizMOOC is offering round tables in 9 countries

The BizMOOC team is currently planning round tables in 9 countries to discuss the results with stakeholders, target groups and policy-makers.

This is the current schedule, more information will follow soon:

  • Austria, Graz: 13.9.2018 at the elearning Day with the title “MOOCs – is this really necessary?”
  • Germany, Potsdam: 07.12.2017 at the openHPI 2017 Forum (done) & 19.09.2018 at the openHPI 2018 Forum
  • Netherlands, Maastricht: 13.&14.12.2018 at the Maastricht Innovation Days
  • Slovakia, Kosice: 29.09.2018 at the Profesia days Job fair
  • UK, Milton Keynes: 18.06.2018 at the CALRG
  • Bulgaria, Burgas: 1.&2.06.2018 at the international conference “Blue Economy and Blue Development”
  • Italy, Rome: September 2018
  • Spain, Alicante: October 2018
  • Belgium, Brussels: September 2018

Block your calendars to join the event in your region and get more in-depth information on our extensive findings we have gathered in more than 2 years.

Photo from the first round table in Potsdam.

ByChristian Friedl

Already more than 5000 people enrolled for our 3 Pilot MOOCs!!!

We are very happy and proud to announce that already more than 5000 people enrolled for our 3 Pilot MOOCs! Thank you all for your interest and motivation to learn 🙂

By this, we have also reached our projected target number – but we are still inviting learners to our MOOCs, so all of them are still available in self-paced mode. Get the overview here and join us.