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Should Mobile Learning Be Compulsory for Preparing Students for Learning in the Workplace?
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Fuller, Richard; Joynes, Viktoria – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
From the contexts of current social, educational and health policy, there appears to be an increasingly inevitable "mobilisation" of resources in medicine and health as the use mobile technology devices and applications becomes widespread and culturally "normed" in workplaces. Over the past 8 years, students from the University…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Workplace Learning, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology
Cutting Edge or Cut Loose? An Exploration of Apprentices' Experiences of Workplace E-Learning
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Mullin, Teresa – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
There is an assumption that e-learning is considered as a valued resource with great potential. This research explores how hairdressing apprentices experience vocational e-learning and makes recommendations on how good practice can be shared. An estimated 35,000 hairdressing and barber salons account for a quarter of a million UK workers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Cosmetology, Apprenticeships
Hybrid Learning Environments: Merging Learning and Work Processes to Facilitate Knowledge Integration and Transitions. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 81
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Zitter, Ilya; Hoeve, Aimee – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This paper deals with the problematic nature of the transition between education and the workplace. A smooth transition between education and the workplace requires learners to develop an integrated knowledge base, but this is problematic as most educational programmes offer knowledge and experiences in a fragmented manner, scattered over a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Education Work Relationship, Workplace Learning
Online People Tagging: Social (Mobile) Network(ing) Services and Work-Based Learning
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Cook, John; Pachler, Norbert – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
Social and mobile technologies offer users unprecedented opportunities for communicating, interacting, sharing, meaning-making, content and context generation. And, these affordances are in constant flux driven by a powerful interplay between technological innovation and emerging cultural practices. Significantly, also, they are starting to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Workplace Learning, Education Work Relationship
A Performance-Oriented Approach to E-Learning in the Workplace
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Wang, Minhong; Ran, Weijia; Liao, Jian; Yang, Stephen J. H. – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
Despite the ever-increasing practice of using e-learning in the workplace, most of the applications perform poorly in motivating employees to learn. Most workplace e-learning applications fail to meet the needs of learners and ultimately fail to serve the organization's quest for success. To solve this problem, we need to examine what workplace…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Employees, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
Embedding an Online Career Development Program into Student Learning
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Thomson, Alison – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2010
The Career Development Program is a nationally recognised, award-winning student-centred program designed to deal with the three university-wide learning and teaching initiatives: Transitions In; Work Integrated Learning; and Transitions Out. The program is oriented to preparing students for university; planning for and taking advantage of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Learner Engagement, Education Work Relationship, Career Development