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Armanious, Michael; Padgett, Jared D. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore what agile learning strategies businesses need to develop agile core competencies to respond to the uncertainty of the rapidly changing business environment and sustain their competitive advantage. Technology advances and unexpected crises have created an ever-changing environment in which…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Organizational Learning, Work Environment, Change
Tabea Augner; Carsten C. Schermuly; Franziska Jungmann – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: Today's unpredictable and fast-changing work environment challenges researchers and organizations to rethink learning. In contrast to traditional learning designs, new learning frameworks such as agile learning are more learner centered, integrated into the workplace and socially shaped. The purpose of this study is to examine Working Out…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Workplace Learning, Personal Autonomy
Irina A. Lokhtina; Pierre Faller – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: Fast-changing global environment, hybrid and virtual work, today's workplace is confronted to an unprecedented level of complexity. This conceptual paper aims to explore ways to re-think and adapt informal workplace learning to those recent changes and important dimensions to consider when designing successful learning strategies in the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Blended Learning, Virtual Classrooms
Thitiporn Onsawarng; Prapassorn Wongdee; Pichet Pinit – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: This study addresses the need for a validated tool to assess self-directed learning (SDL) behaviors among Thai operational employees in the petrochemical industry. Understanding SDL capabilities is essential for effective human resource development, given the complexity of plant operations and the need for continuous skill enhancement.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Independent Study, Work Environment
Behnam Soltani; Karsten E. Zegwaard – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2024
To understand graduate employability, this paper uses a landscape of practice (LofP) lens, and methods including narrative frames, observations, and interviews to interpret capability development and identity construction of learners in a work-based learning masters program. It argues that learners enhance employability, capabilities, and…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Communities of Practice, Masters Programs, Ability
Guðrún Gísladóttir – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This paper documents the Dominant Language Constellations (DLC) in my personal multilingual repertoire, as it traces my path and pathos (or passion) of learning languages--starting with my mother tongue which has been a point of reference for most other languages that I have learnt during my life. It is also a sort of memoir of different periods…
Descriptors: Biographies, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Indo European Languages
Soicher, Raechel N.; Becker-Blease, Kathryn A.; Bostwick, Keiko C. P. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2020
Finding better ways to implement effective teaching and learning strategies in higher education is urgently needed to help address student outcomes such as retention rates, graduation rates, and learning. Psychologists contribute to the science and art of teaching and learning in higher education under many flags, including cognitive psychology,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Evidence Based Practice, College Faculty, College Students
Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Glad, Tone; Filstad, Cathrine – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate whether the formal and informal learning patterns of community health-care nurses changed in the wake of a reform that altered their work by introducing new patient groups, and to explore whether conditions in the new workplaces facilitated or impeded shifts in learning patterns. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Nurses, Community Health Services, Informal Education, Workplace Learning
Sethuraman, Mekala; Radhakrishnan, Geetha – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Purpose: Polytechnic students lack basic skills, especially the writing skill essential for their employment. They find it difficult to write emails, reports, and other technical documents required at their workplace. Although there are studies to investigate this skill-gap, there is little research to explore the possibilities for enhancing their…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Hendriks, Stefan; Sung, SeoYoon; Poell, Rob F. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how customer-facing professionals (CFPs) created learning paths to adapt to changing customer needs in a digital environment. Design/methodology/approach: Two groups of CFPs were created from a previous single-case study to examine the learning paths of the two groups. Both groups were digitally…
Descriptors: Technical Support, Service Occupations, Case Studies, Technological Literacy
Støren, Liv Anne – European Journal of Education, 2016
In this article, innovative activity is considered in the light of broader conceptualisations of innovativeness and what it means to be innovative. Central to the definition of innovativeness used in the analysis is that the worker actively seeks new knowledge and uses it for work-related tasks. This is based on previous research emphasising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Definitions, Information Seeking
The Relationship between Workplace Climate, Motivation and Learning Approaches for Knowledge Workers
Vanthournout, Gert; Noyens, Dorien; Gijbels, David; Van den Bossche, Piet – Vocations and Learning, 2014
Workplace learning is becoming a central tenet for a large proportion of today's employees. This seems especially true for so-called knowledge workers. Today, it remains unclear how differences in the quality of workplace learning are affected by differences in perception of the workplace environment and the motivation of knowledge workers to…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Work Environment, Learning Motivation, Learning Strategies
King de Ramírez, Carmen – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
In order to prepare students to successfully engage with native speakers and members of heritage language communities both at home and abroad, educators must develop course curricula that emphasize cultural practices, products, perspectives, and comparisons as well as provide students with opportunities to directly apply the skills that they have…
Descriptors: Workshops, Cultural Influences, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
Kyndt, Eva; Raes, Elisabeth; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Els – Journal of Career Development, 2013
Learning and development are taking up a central role in the human resource policies of organizations because of their crucial contribution to the competitiveness of those organizations. The present study investigates the relationship of work motivation, perceived workload, and choice independence with employees' approaches to learning at work.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Workplace Learning, Motivation
Boccia, Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study investigated the construct of the learning organization in the restaurant industry. Descriptive accounts of learning were gleaned from face-to-face interviews, focus groups, observations, document analysis, and data from the Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ) from 52 participants employed in three US…
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Interviews, Focus Groups, Case Studies