@article{StoffregenPawlowskiRasetal.2016, author = {Julia Stoffregen and Jan M. Pawlowski and Eric Ras and Eric Tobias and Snezana Šćepanović and D{\´o}nal Fitzpatrick and Tracey Mehigan and Petra Steffens and Peter Schilling and Christiane Przygoda and Horst Friedrich and Sabine Moebs}, title = {Barriers to open e-learning in public administrations: A comparative case study of the European countries Luxembourg, Germany, Montenegro and Ireland}, series = {Technological Forecasting and Social Change}, volume = {111}, number = {October}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.06.030}, pages = {198 -- 208}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This article presents a omparative study of the barriers to open e-learning in public administrations in Luxembourg, Germany, Montenegro and Ireland. It discusses the current state of open e-learning of public administration employees at the local government level and derives the barriers to such learning. This paper's main contribution is its presentation of an empirical set of barriers in the four European countries. The results allow informed assumptions about which barriers will arise in the forthcoming use of open-source e-learning technology, particularly open educational resources as means of learning. Furthermore, this study offers a contextualised barrier framework that allows the systematic capture and comparison of challenges for future studies in the field. Other practical contributions include providing advice about open e-learning programmes, systematising lessons learned and addressing managerial implications.}, language = {en} }