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Workplace Learning and Flexible Delivery

Deakin University

Workplace learning has developed as a field both of practice and of research over the past decade. The increase in interest is due in part to heightened awareness that workplace knowledge and skills contribute to enterprise and national competitiveness, but it is also due to an increased focus on the connections to be made between theory and practice as part of an education or training experience. At the same time, new learning technologies have enhanced delivery of instruction and learning materials in workplaces. This article reviews some of the conceptualizations of workplace learning and its cognitive bases. It also examines workplaces as learning environments and considers the special challenges involved in the flexible delivery of training to workplaces.

Key Words: computer-mediated communication • flexible delivery • flexible learning • situated cognition • situated learning • workplace learning

Review of Educational Research, Vol. 73, No. 1, 53-88 (2003)
DOI: 10.3102/00346543073001053


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