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Stephen Billett; Ashlea Troth; Hongmin Yan – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Elaborating the relations amongst workers' learning, innovations and well-being is essential for achieving two important and dual goals in contemporary work life. The first is individuals' ongoing learning that underpins their employability and can respond to new challenges and emerging occupational and workplace requirements. The second comprises…
Descriptors: Labor Education, Well Being, Innovation, Adult Learning
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Hong Hanh Tran – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
This paper focuses on learning that takes place outside formal classrooms within groups or teams. Based on the conceptual framework of informal learning, adult learning and lifelong learning, it investigates how two contrasting groups of adult learners in Vietnam, Mekong doctors and Hanoi hairdressers, learn, interact, and collaborate through…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Adult Learning, Informal Education, Confucianism
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Adeline Yuen Sze Goh; Alistair Daniel Lim – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
Like other health care practices, the increasing complexity in dentistry signals the need for a reconceptualisation of dentist professional learning. Professional dental bodies, at large, still privilege formal continuing professional development (CPD) provisions focusing on off-the-job activities despite growing evidence that much invaluable…
Descriptors: Dentistry, Communities of Practice, Workplace Learning, Professional Development
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Anne Karhapää; Pauliina Rikala; Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen; Raija Hämäläinen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how digital technologies at work serve as environments for informal workplace learning in knowledge work. Design/methodology/approach: Digital ethnography was used to investigate the digital environments of one public sector workplace. The data included observations, interviews and participant…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Public Sector, Information Technology
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Hwang, Jihee; Yoon, Seung Won – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Along with the rapidly changing social and economic context accompanied by COVID-19, concerns have been raised for the less-educated, low-wage workers who disproportionately experienced disadvantages in accessing workplace learning or training opportunities essential for job placement or career development. In response to the challenges of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Labor Force Development, Workplace Learning, Disadvantaged
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Spinuzzi, Clay – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to consider ways to visually model data generated by qualitative case studies, pointing out a need for visualizations that depict both synchronic relations across representations and how those relations change diachronically. To develop an appropriate modeling approach, the paper critically examines Max Boisot's I-Space…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Data, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Assefa, Yalalem; Moges, Bekalu Tadesse; Aynalem, Workineh Birhanu; Azmera, Yibeltal Aemro; Shah, Mohd Asif; Mohamed, Abduselam Abdulahi – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2023
The quality of adult learning depends on the professionalisation of individuals who are involved in the adult education programs provision. The delivery of adult education programs is mainly supported by facilitators. Increasing the amount of time and effort put into developing and acknowledging their contributions can aid in motivating and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Workplace Learning, Adult Education, Adult Learning
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Taddese, Esayas Teshome; Rao, Congman – Education 3-13, 2023
Teachers' professional learning in the workplace is of great interest, for it is believed to positively impact the quality of teaching and learning. To this end, this qualitative case study explored the lived experiences of teachers involved in workplace professional learning (WPL) practices in Ethiopian primary schools. Guided by the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
McLean, Leroy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The main purpose of this action research study was to understand the most appropriate methods to replicate expertise and expert performance in an ever-changing and dynamic global organization. It was also meant to empower team members in becoming more decisive experts within their respective fields/domains. In this study, ten (10)…
Descriptors: Expertise, Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Video Technology
Higgins, Cynthia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Workplaces increasingly have enlisted their subject matter experts to construct online, asynchronous slideware lessons with simplified authoring tools. However, these subject matter experts lack instructional design knowledge and often transfer in-person slide lessons to an online format with few modifications and assume learners automatically…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Expertise
Myra Jean Beckers – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The 21st-century global economy has significantly changed the landscape of the American workplace. Apprenticeship training programs are gaining momentum as a postsecondary training approach to fill growing worker shortages for industry-specific needs and prepare workers for new or expanding industries (Fitzpayne & Pollack, 2018; Freyer et al.,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Community College Students, Classroom Environment
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Witherspoon, Alison – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to explore how team processes relate to employee team learning that leads to innovation in higher education (HE) and provides leaders with an adaptable model with recommendations for implementation. Design/methodology/approach: This research was guided by theories of experiential learning, action learning and…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Teamwork, Educational Innovation, Higher Education
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Csizmadia, Péter; Csillag, Sára; Szászvári, Karina Ágnes; Bácsi, Katalin – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the characteristics of learning environments and the related human resource (HR) practices in two Hungarian information technology (IT) companies. The aim of the contribution is to provide an empirical in-depth analysis of how learning environments are being created and managed in knowledge-intensive small-…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Human Resources, Foreign Countries, Information Technology
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Chaudhuri, Sanghamitra; Ghosh, Rajashi; Park, Sunyoung – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2022
There is dearth of studies exploring the likelihood of reverse mentoring practices being accepted or resisted in diverse organizational contexts. Moreover, prior studies on reverse mentoring have focused on the formal programmatic implementations instead of exploring the informal instances where senior employees learn from their junior colleagues…
Descriptors: Mentors, Workplace Learning, Nonformal Education, Teacher Attitudes
James A. Whitmore – ProQuest LLC, 2022
U.S. workers are not sufficiently prepared for financial success in retirement. This qualitative phenomenological case study explored participants' perceptions of their retirement adequacy, financial literacy, and the effects of employer-sponsored programs to enhance their employees' financial literacy. This study intended to resolve U.S. workers…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Retirement, Planning, Financial Literacy
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