So what's your understanding of workplace learning?
My sense is that it is a different learning modality.
It kicks in the moment you take off your training wheels, and start riding without support from your teacher, trainer, coach, mentor, your manuals, text books etc. You have to learn to start collecting information through your senses from your work context, make sense of what you see, hear, feel and then start making decisions based on this data or information. The outcome of this process is action. Then the feedback loop begins and you go through the cycle again. There is more, but let's use that as a starting point.
It kicks in the moment you take off your training wheels, and start riding without support from your teacher, trainer, coach, mentor, your manuals, text books etc. You have to learn to start collecting information through your senses from your work context, make sense of what you see, hear, feel and then start making decisions based on this data or information. The outcome of this process is action. Then the feedback loop begins and you go through the cycle again. There is more, but let's use that as a starting point.
So why should you be interested?
All of us in one way or another are "teachers" of one kind or another. How to we prepare our learners to shift seamlessly into this mode. What is the role and importance of case studies, role plays, on-job observation, role-modelling etc. What prepares and assists learners as they dive in and start to swim on their own?
All of us in one way or another are "teachers" of one kind or another. How to we prepare our learners to shift seamlessly into this mode. What is the role and importance of case studies, role plays, on-job observation, role-modelling etc. What prepares and assists learners as they dive in and start to swim on their own?
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