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OPEN ONLINE COURSES FOR BUSINESS: THE M-COMMERCE CASE
OPEN ONLINE COURSES FOR BUSINESS: THE M-COMMERCE CASE

Author(s): Radu Vasiu, Muguraș MOCOFAN, Andrei Ternauciuc, Silviu VERT
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: m-commerce; MOOC; online learning; digital skills.

Summary/Abstract: The project m-commerce focuses on the training of staff and employees of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in order to facilitate the further development and expansion of m-commerce activities. The m-commerce training course, a holistic approach, includes economic, legal and technical topics that are necessary for the switch to m-commerce. In Romania, the training course was run online using the (MOOCs model) on the UniCampus Romanian platform in the spring of 2016. The online participants were involved in several online activities created for increasing their ability to develop m-commerce applications. Some face-to-face meetings have also been scheduled. A final evaluation has been done in order to award the certificate. The purpose of the paper was to evaluate the developed course from the point of view of: content, delivery methods, students’ perception on the tools implemented on the platform, the communication tools and their effectiveness.

  • Issue Year: 13/2017
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 304-309
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English