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The systemic cognition of E-learning success in internationally operating organizations (2011)
Kokonaisvaltainen käsitys e-oppimisen menestyksestä kansainvälisessä organisaatiossa

Hilgarth, B. (2011). The systemic cognition of E-learning success in internationally operating organizations [Doctoral dissertation]. Jyväskylän yliopisto. Jyväskylä studies in computing, 147. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-4594-7

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Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Hilgarth, Bernd

ISBN: 978-951-39-4593-0

eISBN: 978-951-39-4594-7

Lehti tai sarja: Jyväskylä studies in computing

ISSN: 1456-5390

Julkaisuvuosi: 2011

Sarjan numero: 147

Kirjan kokonaissivumäärä: 100

Kustantaja: Jyväskylän yliopisto

Kustannuspaikka: Jyväskylä

Julkaisumaa: Suomi

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

Pysyvä verkko-osoite: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-4594-7

Julkaisun avoin saatavuus: Avoimesti saatavilla

Julkaisukanavan avoin saatavuus: Kokonaan avoin julkaisukanava

Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-4594-7

Tiivistelmä

Knowledge plays a key role in our increasingly globalised business world. Sustained management of knowledge becomes a tremendous task for organisations do act in international markets. Traditional training degenerates in the time of the Internet and online communication more and more to a luxury good. E-Learning, which is not an emerging concept, addresses also the issues of flexible and open learning. But over the last two decades this form of education became more and more professionalised in the application of higher education. Considering it in the context of internationally operating organisations, which are characterised by distributed and heterogeneously target groups, e-Learning may be seen as an effective concept, but lacks in the efficiency of deploying and managing. The goal of the research activities at hand is the creation of a holistic management reference model, which addresses these issues of e-Learning over its life-cycle in distributed workforces of globally acting organisations. In general, the research activities go beyond the simple investigation of one specific issue. More than this, the overall intention is to identify and address the whole complex of eLearning in non-professionalised training organisations. Reaching this goal depends on different factors: first, the review of existing theories and knowledge is handled in multi-disciplinary and peer-reviewed scientific literature regarding eLearning success dimensions, influencing factors as well as indicators for successful e-Learning and not least on theories and approaches for the management of it; secondly, the rigorous identification of the general classes of problems (e.g. cultural differences) are observable in a representative empirical environment; thirdly, the formulation of a reference model which will direct this class of problem(s) which is testable in similar empirical situations. Action Design Research was chosen as the adequate methodological framework in this work. The central research result is the Cybernetic e-Learning Management Model for this. It subsumes the technological, institutional, pedagogical as well as socio-ethical success domains and the complexity of e-Learning deployment. The model’s final assessment performed in the context of reference model evaluation shows the basic maturity and relevance as well as starting point for future research in this field.

YSO-asiasanat: verkko-opetus; verkko-oppiminen; tietokoneavusteinen opetus; tietokoneavusteinen oppiminen; kansainväliset yritykset; oppimisympäristö; muutos

Vapaat asiasanat: e-learning; internationally operating organisation; success management; cybernetic e-learning management model

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