Using social software for enhancing IS talents' e-learning motivation

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Wirtky;Sven Laumer;Andreas Eckhardt;Tim Weitzel

  • Affiliations:
  • Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg, Germany;Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg, Germany;Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany;Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 annual conference on Computers and people research
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In the aftermath of the global economic recession, 34% of all companies struggle to fill open positions. IS talents are the top-5 employees in demand. The countries' education systems are not flexible enough to provide enough workers with the right skills at the right point in time. E-learning could be part of the solution, if it were realizing its potential. The facts indicate that success of e-learning in the academic context is considerable, but users are not enough motivated to participate in corporate e-learning inhibiting life-long learning. Given the advent of social software and its potential to increase user motivation, this paper specifically develops a model predicting the impact of social software features on user motivation to participate in corporate asynchronous e-learning activities. Providing guidance for future e-learning research and implementations, it bases its findings on broad literature reviews.