Barriers to open e-learning in public administrations

Julia Dorothée Stoffregen, Jan M. Pawlowski, Eric Ras, Eric Tobias, Snezana Šćepanović, Dónal Fitzpatrick, Tracey Mehigan, Petra Steffens, Christiane Przygoda, Peter Schilling, Horst Friedrich and Sabine Moebs

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2016, vol. 111, issue C, 198-208

Abstract: This article presents a comparative study of the barriers to open e-learning in public administrations in Luxembourg, Germany, Montenegro and Ireland. It discusses the current state of open e-learning of public administration employees at the local government level and derives the barriers to such learning. This paper's main contribution is its presentation of an empirical set of barriers in the four European countries. The results allow informed assumptions about which barriers will arise in the forthcoming use of open-source e-learning technology, particularly open educational resources as means of learning. Furthermore, this study offers a contextualised barrier framework that allows the systematic capture and comparison of challenges for future studies in the field. Other practical contributions include providing advice about open e-learning programmes, systematising lessons learned and addressing managerial implications.

Keywords: Comparative study; Public administrations; OER; e-Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.06.030

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