Learning in the Workplace

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Learning in the Workplace Frank Lyons
Director of Foundation Direct University of
Portsmouth
University of Worcester June 11 2007
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Placement WBL Company Benefits

• Placements as a temporary workforce and source of
  recruits
• WBL involves training own staff
• Placement and WBL Curricula for company needs
• - brings in new ideas
• - problem solving and projects
• Credentials carry value for customers
• Learning companies attract staff
• Retain staff

Engagement leads to cost-effective benefits for
Learning Companies
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Benefits for the Student

• Placement students gain
• - Experience and confidence
• - Applied learning
• - Project/dissertation opportunities
• Employed students additionally gain
• - New responsibilities and Promotion
• - Theorisation of prior practice

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Forms of Work-based Learning

• Learning in work placements and at own place of
  work
• Organisational learning taking orders, following
  discipline, time keeping.
• Skills training (including shadowing)
• Projects
• Working with a Mentor
• Learning for work
• Simulations
• Live Briefs
• Conferences
• Action Learning Sets

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Learning Contract managed WBL
Taught Modules
Taught Modules
Learning Contract
Artifact WBL Report
Company Project
Best Practice research
Training
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Learning Contract Topside redesign of HMS
Illustrious Learning Outcomes
Project planning Electro Magnetism Mutual
Interference CAD Topside design
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Foundation Direct Centre of Excellence in
Teaching Learning
 
FD Professional Development Unit
University Units
Critical Thinking Professional Ethics
Professional Skills WBL Mentor management
Benchmark
Progress Review
End Review
WBL Project
Mentor
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Curriculum planning and legislation
Assessing WBL in Early Years Care and Education

LOutcome Ability to know and put into practice
in a designed curriculum the relevant aspects of
legislation, regulations and guidance relating to
early years curriculum provision that meets the
needs of individual children. 
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WBL at Different Levels

• HE Level 1 Toward an Equal Opportunities Policy
  for University of Portsmouth
• HE Level 2 Multicultural welcomes with Rose
  Lodge nursery
• HE Level 3 Licence to service and repair aero
  engines with Hants Sussex Aviation
• HE Masters Level Biometric Identity project with
  Citibank and Motion Touch)

Learning a Work Learning for Profit
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Best WBL placement companies
Work tasks have complexity, variety and
control Technological change Matrix V
Hierarchical management Time and space for
analysis interaction Technical skills valued V
taken for granted Cross disciplinary working and
communication Workplace mobility and expanding
job designs Formative appraisal and/or Mentoring
systems (Skule and Raichbom 2001 Unwin and
Fuller, 2003)
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WBL criteria Industry and academic standards
Academy WBL Measures Flexible LOs Online PD
units
QualityAssuredWork-base Learning Assessment
Trained mentor, student and tutor connoisseurs
Company and Academy engagement
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