Action learning projects from an industry perspective

I am a big believer in on-the-job learning and the need to formalise informal learning. Without trying to sound like Donald Rumsfeld with his known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns; the need to formalise tacit learning is an important learning strategy.

So I will be redesigning action learning projects for a specific learner cohort. This will start with researching and writing a paper on workplace learning. When I studied Training and Development, one of the units was an introduction to workplace learning and I was really excited to study current workplace learning practices.

I was fortunate to be able to apply workplace learning from the perspective of an institutional training provider, I was not only the assessor but I was also the learning facilitator as well. This required designing learning strategies, selecting suitable learning materials and designing the evidence collection tools to measure transfer of learning.

I really enjoyed the trips to workplaces, you have the ability to assess candidates in their natural work surroundings where they are comfortable, familiar with procedures, machinery and tooling. This contextualised learning process benefits all involved and is a cost effective method to up-skill the workforce from an enterprise perspective.

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