Research from Future Workplace shows that despite the fact nearly half of organisations are interested in curating or creating Massive Open Online Courses (#moocs), L&D teams are the ones most resistant to using them.
The study of 222 HR and learning directors asked ‘Who would be the most resistant to the idea of curating MOOCs?’ The answers showed those most resistant were:
- Training staff (44%)
- IT department (32%)
- Line of business executives (31%)
- Employees (25%)
- HR (18%)
Jeanne Meister, a partner at Future Workplace and co-author of the book The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today, said: “While Corporate Learning staff are not the only resistors their reluctance to experiment with a new model for designing and delivering online learning may be a function of several factors ranging from lack of knowledge of the MOOC model, inability to identify a pilot a new offering or lack of executive support to create a prototype.
The research showed that other barriers to organisations experimenting with MOOCs included lack of budget, technical and security issues as well a lack of MOOC design skills amongst L&D teams.
More on the research here.
