TY - GEN
T1 - A Lean Six Sigma Certification MOOC
T2 - The Learning Ideas Conference, TLIC 2021
AU - Hutwelker, Reiner
AU - Ott, Holly
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Lean and Six Sigma are management systems that aim to improve the development and operation of business processes. Lean and Six Sigma tasks and tools structure the phases: Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC). Their theoretical mastery and practical application leads to Yellow, Green, and Black Belt certification—monetarily rewarded by organizations worldwide. This makes Lean Six Sigma relevant for employees and attractive even for students. Our Lean Six Sigma MOOCs offer certification programs for the Yellow and the Green Belt—with more than 300k participants since 2015. In our Yellow Belt, the fundamentals of Lean and Six Sigma are taught and tested automatically online. In our Green Belt, the learner must implement a real project. The project can be learner-specific or predefined by us, is guided by a sequence of tasks and tools, and is supported by coaching and lectures. To balance our concept—wide range of project topics + digital project guidance + individual support—we develop and operate our MOOCs as business processes (Sect. 2), and outline Six Sigma in our context (Sect. 1). This is a report on the development and operation of a MOOC, not a research paper.
AB - Lean and Six Sigma are management systems that aim to improve the development and operation of business processes. Lean and Six Sigma tasks and tools structure the phases: Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC). Their theoretical mastery and practical application leads to Yellow, Green, and Black Belt certification—monetarily rewarded by organizations worldwide. This makes Lean Six Sigma relevant for employees and attractive even for students. Our Lean Six Sigma MOOCs offer certification programs for the Yellow and the Green Belt—with more than 300k participants since 2015. In our Yellow Belt, the fundamentals of Lean and Six Sigma are taught and tested automatically online. In our Green Belt, the learner must implement a real project. The project can be learner-specific or predefined by us, is guided by a sequence of tasks and tools, and is supported by coaching and lectures. To balance our concept—wide range of project topics + digital project guidance + individual support—we develop and operate our MOOCs as business processes (Sect. 2), and outline Six Sigma in our context (Sect. 1). This is a report on the development and operation of a MOOC, not a research paper.
KW - Development
KW - MOOC
KW - Operation
KW - Project guidance
KW - Six sigma
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85119853819
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-90677-1_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-90677-1_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85119853819
SN - 9783030906764
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 122
EP - 132
BT - Innovations in Learning and Technology for the Workplace and Higher Education - Proceedings of ‘The Learning Ideas Conference, 2021
A2 - Guralnick, David
A2 - Auer, Michael E.
A2 - Poce, Antonella
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 14 June 2021 through 18 June 2021
ER -