Abstract
There is growing acceptance that learning in the workplace has academic validity and contributes to both personal and organisational development. This chapter discusses examples of learning by individuals in full-time employment where work experience is the focus of the learning. Some of the examples are university led programmes, which are adaptations of programmes designed for individual development of full-time students, and some are examples of employer led training programmes, which are focussed on organisational development. The interesting observation is that both types of learning focus on the creation of space for reflection on workplace experience, and the promotion of learner interaction within this space. It is this creation of interactive space which resonates with CSCL.
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Mumford, J. (2013). Work Based Learning: A Structure for Learning Through Work. In: Goggins, S., Jahnke, I., Wulf, V. (eds) Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning at the Workplace. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1740-8_5
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