@article{Rohloff_Schwerer_Schenk_Meinel_2020, title={openSAP: Learner Behavior and Activity in Self-Paced Enterprise MOOCs}, volume={13}, url={https://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jac/article/view/16531}, DOI={10.3991/ijac.v13i2.16531}, abstractNote={Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been a subject of research since 2012, especially in the context of professional development and workplace learning due to their flexible schedule and format, which is a prerequisite for on the job learning. But MOOCs often do not fulfill the promise of flexible learning as it is only possible to achieve a certificate during the course runtime. An unpredictable workload and thus a lack of time often results in not showing up to a course or dropping out during the course runtime. Therefore, some platform content remains accessible even after the course runtime in self-paced mode. These courses differ from live courses as participants still can access all of the content and the discussion forum in read-only mode, but are not able to take the graded assignments and exams which are a prerequisite to achieving a certificate at the end of a course. Even though it is only possible by paying a fee to earn a graded certificate for these self-paced courses, we identified a high share of additional enrollments after the course end that suggests there is still interest from participants. Nevertheless, learning behavior in self-paced courses has not been a major subject of research, yet. This work contributes to closing this research gap by exploring the learner behavior in self-paced courses. The results show tendencies of more time-efficiency and engagement of self-paced learners under certain conditions and pave the way for further research and practical applications.}, number={2}, journal={International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning (iJAC)}, author={Rohloff, Tobias and Schwerer, Florian and Schenk, Nathanael and Meinel, Christoph}, year={2020}, month={Sep.}, pages={pp. 30–40} }