What is Work-based Learning?
What is it, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Lancaster University Carolyn Downs
Content
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
What is Work-based Learning?......................................................................................................................Slide 4Why introduce Work-based Learning in my organisation?............................................................Slide 6What is a self-reliant worker?...............................................................................................................Slide 7 Aims of the Lapis programme...............................................................................................................Slide 9Training and need analysis..............................................................................................................................Slide 11What is a Learning Agreement.......................................................................................................................Slide 12 What goes into a Learning Agreement?...........................................................................................Slide 12Continous Professional Development (CPD)..........................................................................................Slide 13 Key features of CPD.....................................................................................................................................Slide 13CPD and Career Development.........................................................................................................................Slide 14 Useful reading.........................................................................................................................................................Slide 17
" The term work-based learning logically refers to all and any learning that is situated in the workplace or arises directly out of workplace concerns"
(Lester and Costley, 2021, p.562)
" The term work-based learning logically refers to all and any learning that is situated in the workplace or arises directly out of workplace concerns"
(Lester and Costley, 2021, p.562)
What is Work-based Learning?
What is it, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Work-based Learning can be presented in diferent formats
Organised/Formal
Experimental/Informal
What is Work-based Learning?
What is it, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Work-based Learning has been found to offer benefits for both the employer and the learner (Garnett, 2007; Costley & Armsby, 2007; Nixon et al, 2008)
Why introduce Work-based Learning in my Organisation?
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
What is a Self-Reliant worker?
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
The Self-Reliant worker uses their general and specialist knowledge to be aware of the changing world of work and is equipped to take forward his or her own career and personal development throughout a working life
Self-Reliance skills include:
Process Skills
Functional Skills
What is a Self-Reliant worker?
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Coping with uncertainty
Self-Awareness
Transfer Skills
Exploring and creating opportunities
Action Planning
Self-Promotion
Development Focus
Aims of the LAPIS programme
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
To make explicit for the managers how the workplace can be a site and source of learning
To support managers in identifying learning needs of their staff and in planning a programme of Work-based Learning
To support managers in their development as leaders of learning in professional contexts, and where appropiate, to understand and evaluate their role as a source of learning in the workplace
To enable managers to critically evaluate their workplace as a 'learning organisation'
Enable managers to demonstrate awareness of methods and approaches to learning used in a work-based context
Support managers in designing and managing a programme of Work-based Learning which meets staff, employer and wider stakeholder needs
Identify priorities and plan for Continuous Professional and Personal Devlopment (CPPD)
Initial Steps in Implementing Work-based Learning
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Before planning your Work-based Learning programme here are some interesting facts to keep in mind before you implement the following steps:
Training Need Analysis
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
A training analysis is a useful tool for establishing specific training needs of staff. It asks a series of questions covering soft and hard skills
It is important to remember that individuals own assessment of their knowledge can be flawed (either overstated, or understated) so managers should design their training needs questionnaire taking care to check
There are many templates which can be adjusted to your organisations specific needs
What is a Learning Agreement?
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
The learning agreement is a useful framework for learning in the workplace
Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
It can also be known as Continous Professional and Personal Development (CPPD)
It is a lifelong process that is essential to ensure skills and knowledge are updated and enable workers to develop sufficient flexibility to understand how their skills are transferable to a range of settings
It is sometimes used as a term to cover a training or development plan, but in fact is a wider concept than formal, job-relating training.
The key feature of CPD is that a systematic process of recording and reflecting on learning and development takes place
It is detailed enough to provide a record (with examples of evidence) of progression from basic skills competence to complex understanding of a process or procedure
Key features of CPD
CPD and Career Development
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
The CPD record can help managers identify strengths and spot talents and skills that are transferable into new areas of work
A CPD record is also a means of noting and addressing gaps in skills and capabilities and deciding how to overcome these
Many professional bodies require a record of CPD as a condition of membership; some also require reflective practice journals
Identification of how and where learning can (and does) take place
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Learning in the workplace often occurs informally. Managers should conduct a review of working practices to identify learning opportunities and make use of these in planning their programme of Work-based Learning
How to plan a programme of Work-based Learning
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Useful reading
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
- Cunningham, Ian; Dawes Graham; and Bennett, Ben. (2004). The handbook of work based learning, Aldershot: Gower
- Eraut, M. & Hirsh, W. 2007. The Significance of Workplace Learning for Individuals, Groups and Organisations. Oxford: University of Oxford (SKOPE Monograph 6).
- Honey, Peter (1994) 101 ways to develop your people without really trying! [a manager's guide to work based learning]. New ed. 1994
- Raelin, Joseph A., (2000) Work-based learning: the new frontier of management development
- Addison-Wesley series on organization devlopment; Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall
- Roodhouse, Simon; Mumford, John (2010) Understanding work-based learning
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What is Work-based Learning?
What is it, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Lancaster University Carolyn Downs
Content
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
What is Work-based Learning?......................................................................................................................Slide 4Why introduce Work-based Learning in my organisation?............................................................Slide 6What is a self-reliant worker?...............................................................................................................Slide 7 Aims of the Lapis programme...............................................................................................................Slide 9Training and need analysis..............................................................................................................................Slide 11What is a Learning Agreement.......................................................................................................................Slide 12 What goes into a Learning Agreement?...........................................................................................Slide 12Continous Professional Development (CPD)..........................................................................................Slide 13 Key features of CPD.....................................................................................................................................Slide 13CPD and Career Development.........................................................................................................................Slide 14 Useful reading.........................................................................................................................................................Slide 17
" The term work-based learning logically refers to all and any learning that is situated in the workplace or arises directly out of workplace concerns"
(Lester and Costley, 2021, p.562)
" The term work-based learning logically refers to all and any learning that is situated in the workplace or arises directly out of workplace concerns"
(Lester and Costley, 2021, p.562)
What is Work-based Learning?
What is it, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Work-based Learning can be presented in diferent formats
Organised/Formal
Experimental/Informal
What is Work-based Learning?
What is it, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Work-based Learning has been found to offer benefits for both the employer and the learner (Garnett, 2007; Costley & Armsby, 2007; Nixon et al, 2008)
Why introduce Work-based Learning in my Organisation?
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
What is a Self-Reliant worker?
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
The Self-Reliant worker uses their general and specialist knowledge to be aware of the changing world of work and is equipped to take forward his or her own career and personal development throughout a working life
Self-Reliance skills include:
Process Skills
Functional Skills
What is a Self-Reliant worker?
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Coping with uncertainty
Self-Awareness
Transfer Skills
Exploring and creating opportunities
Action Planning
Self-Promotion
Development Focus
Aims of the LAPIS programme
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
To make explicit for the managers how the workplace can be a site and source of learning
To support managers in identifying learning needs of their staff and in planning a programme of Work-based Learning
To support managers in their development as leaders of learning in professional contexts, and where appropiate, to understand and evaluate their role as a source of learning in the workplace
To enable managers to critically evaluate their workplace as a 'learning organisation'
Enable managers to demonstrate awareness of methods and approaches to learning used in a work-based context
Support managers in designing and managing a programme of Work-based Learning which meets staff, employer and wider stakeholder needs
Identify priorities and plan for Continuous Professional and Personal Devlopment (CPPD)
Initial Steps in Implementing Work-based Learning
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Before planning your Work-based Learning programme here are some interesting facts to keep in mind before you implement the following steps:
Training Need Analysis
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
A training analysis is a useful tool for establishing specific training needs of staff. It asks a series of questions covering soft and hard skills
It is important to remember that individuals own assessment of their knowledge can be flawed (either overstated, or understated) so managers should design their training needs questionnaire taking care to check
There are many templates which can be adjusted to your organisations specific needs
What is a Learning Agreement?
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
The learning agreement is a useful framework for learning in the workplace
Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
It can also be known as Continous Professional and Personal Development (CPPD)
It is a lifelong process that is essential to ensure skills and knowledge are updated and enable workers to develop sufficient flexibility to understand how their skills are transferable to a range of settings
It is sometimes used as a term to cover a training or development plan, but in fact is a wider concept than formal, job-relating training.
The key feature of CPD is that a systematic process of recording and reflecting on learning and development takes place
It is detailed enough to provide a record (with examples of evidence) of progression from basic skills competence to complex understanding of a process or procedure
Key features of CPD
CPD and Career Development
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
The CPD record can help managers identify strengths and spot talents and skills that are transferable into new areas of work
A CPD record is also a means of noting and addressing gaps in skills and capabilities and deciding how to overcome these
Many professional bodies require a record of CPD as a condition of membership; some also require reflective practice journals
Identification of how and where learning can (and does) take place
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Learning in the workplace often occurs informally. Managers should conduct a review of working practices to identify learning opportunities and make use of these in planning their programme of Work-based Learning
How to plan a programme of Work-based Learning
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?
Useful reading
What is Work-based Learning, why is it useful and how can managers implement it?