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Anne Karhapää; Raija Hämäläinen; Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
Informal workplace learning is an essential part of lifelong learning. In recent years, digital technology has come to play an increasingly important role in enabling informal learning at work through various tools and resources. However, as little empirical research exists on informal learning in this context, more knowledge of digital work…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Work Environment, Teleworking, Informal Education
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Brown, Tony; Yasukawa, Keiko; Black, Stephen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2014
A policy consensus has emerged in Australia that there is a workforce literacy and numeracy crisis, similar to many other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. The study informing this paper examined this framing of crisis by interviewing and observing production workers in three manufacturing companies. Each company was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Literacy Education, Numeracy
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Ha, Tak S. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
In the knowledge economy, many companies are well aware of the vital need to maintain the professional expertise of their workers at a high level. Though there have been a lot of research studies in the areas of professional expertise and workplace learning, few examined the learning pathways novice workers went through to become experts in their…
Descriptors: Expertise, Knowledge Economy, Professional Development, Workplace Learning
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Gustavsson, Maria; Ekberg, Kerstin – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This article reports on the findings of a planned workplace health promotion intervention, and the aim is to identify conditions that facilitated or restricted the learning to promote health at an emergency care department in a Swedish hospital. The study had a longitudinal design, with interviews before and after the intervention and follow-up…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Health Promotion, Intervention, Educational Environment