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Gamified Immersive Safety Training in Virtual Reality: A Mixed Methods Approach
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Amir Haj-Bolouri; Jesse Katende; Matti Rossi – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: The reemergence of immersive virtual technology (IVR) provides both opportunities and challenges for workplace learning (WPL). The purpose of this study is to explore and develop knowledge about how gamification influences the WPL experience by addressing two research questions: "RQ1." What characterizes a gamified immersive…
Descriptors: Safety Education, Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education, Workplace Learning
Learning When New at Work. A Thematic Analysis of Interviews with Young Adult Retail Workers in Sweden
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Anna Berg Jansson; Erika Wall; Sven Svensson – Journal of Education and Work, 2024
Purpose: The aim of this study is to analyse young adults' positive experiences of learning when entering the labour market. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on 13 individual in-depth interviews with young adults (aged 18-28) working within the retail sector in Sweden. The interviews explored the interviewees' experiences when…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Work Attitudes, Young Adults, Retailing
Informal Workplace Learning in Swedish Police Education-- A Teacher Perspective
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Sjöberg, David; Holmgren, Robert – Vocations and Learning, 2021
In the literature, informal learning is considered to be of great importance to employees' development of workplace learning. The aim of this study, which involves respondents from a Swedish police education unit, was to contribute knowledge about Swedish police education teachers' informal learning as regards conditions for learning, learning…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Police Education, Foreign Countries, Informal Education
Student Teachers' Workplace-Based Learning in Sweden on Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Experiences in Practice Settings
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Ärlemalm-Hagsér, Eva – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2017
Workplace-based learning experiences are integral to early childhood teacher education. In Sweden, the objectives of early childhood teacher education programmes require students to develop knowledge and skills about education for sustainability (EfS), in accordance with national policy documents. This includes how to work with EfS in everyday…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Early Childhood Education, Sustainability
Placements: An Underused Vehicle for Quality Enhancement in Higher Education?
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Kettis, Asa; Ring, Lena; Gustavsson, Maria; Wallman, Andy – Quality in Higher Education, 2013
Placements have the potential to contribute more effectively to the quality of higher education. The aim of this article is to discuss how placements can be made more worthwhile for individual students, while also contributing to the overall quality of teaching and learning at HEIs as well as to the development of workplace cultures that are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Workplace Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience