Examples of How Companies & Associations are Using MOOCs

"Nanodegree” offered by Udacity and its corporate partners

• Not developed in collaboration with any higher education institution
• “Credentials built and recognized by industry leaders” - http://www.udacity.com/nanodegrees
• “They know what technical skills they need to hire for and which new skills their employees need. Because they use the technologies and skills they teach, they teach them in a concrete applicable way (Udacity, 2014).
• Initial partners are AT&T, Cloudera, Salesforce and Autodesk
• 6-12 month programs
• Front and back-end Web development, IOS development, and data analysis

Yahoo - reimburses employees for the cost of course-completion certificates when participating in an externally created MOOC, a cost that is much less than that of in-person traininghttp://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2013/11/30/the-mooc-marketplace-takes-off/

Pitney Bowes - train information technology developers on business skills and the latest programming languages

Google’s g2g Program - helps employees collaborate and learn from each other’s rich set of experiences http://www.udemy.com/organizations/blog/2013/12/23/seven-ways-to-corporate-mooc/

McAfee & Intel - new-hire training http://www.udemy.com/organizations/blog/2013/12/23/seven-ways-to-corporate-mooc/

SAP - developed openSAP to educate developers and users of SAP - https://open.sap.com/

Oracle - introduces Java developers to embedded applications - https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/

1-800-FLOWERS - educates independent florists on business and floral design topics

Bank of America & Khan Academy - partnered to provide personal finance education to consumers http://www.bettermoneyhabits.com/

Google, Amazon, and Facebook - screening job candidates and building talent pipelines for their companies

TELUS - 6 week, company-wide employee training http://www.yourtrainingedge.com/moocs-from-the-classroom-to-the-conference-room/

McAfee - Salesforce training has improved profitability & saved time - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/2013/08/13/how-moocs-will-revolutionize-corporate-learning-development/

State Boards of Accountancy in Maryland & Ohio have approved plans to accept Continuing Professional Education in 10-minute increments - http://www.accountingtoday.com/ato_issues/29_2/learning-to-love-new-ways-of-learning-73503-1.html

eduMOOC - https://sites.google.com/site/moocsforpd/edumooc

Palliative Care MOOC - https://sites.google.com/site/moocsforpd/one-patient---one-team

• A Big Course from a Small Association - http://associationsnow.com/2014/09/a-big-course-from-a-small-association/