Keynote- Globalisation and the Changing nature of work and its impact on workplace and labour organisation Regimentation of work is still in existence - example given from call centre industry in telecommunications industry - this is not the way work was…

Building the capability of VET Providers contd… Clive Chappell Changing nature of work within society that also apply to the training organisation. We are not short of theories about learning! They bring with them particular views on learning, learners and…

Project website at http://consortiumresearchprogram.net.au Reports from research consortium who have been working on NCVER research this year - through the consortium they have been tackling a variety of issues and much collaboration between the focus areas.…

The Final Keynote seems to have come around quickly! Rethinking the relationships between on and off the job learning If we take the view that workplace learning is participatory and informal, then: - work related learning can become invisible - differences…

Closing remarks for conference What Paul saw: - people looking for deeper conceptualisations of workplace learning that are still convincingly related to empirical work - some constructive critique of CoP as means of organisational learning - individual as…

Web Discussion as an Assessment Tool for Practical Nurse Students Learning during work based learning Students actually asked why discussions weren’t being used as part of assessment material. They were being asked to contribute learning journals and…

Communities of Practice change practice but not always or easily Cohen and Prusak - CoP’s are difficult to sustain Practice has been the tricky one to embrace (earlier in this blog [September?] I have a graphic about practice in CoPs .that spells it out for…

Elearning and virtual Communities of Practice Using the more academic model of CoP which is about how learning actually is. critical overview of Lave and Wenger’s analytical approach to learning, and then application to a group of e-Creatives who worked…

Workplace Learning from the perspective of insitutional learning Over time the link betweeen the world of work and institutional courses has changed and become looser, although at the same time the courses have become more likely to be national…

Cutting it: Learning and Work performance in Hairdressing Salons Project in progress so preliminary findings so far will be presented. industry profile - smaller businesses, some larger salons who tend to have their own training schools. Entry to industry -…

The conference has had a huge range of speakers. When I first looked at the program I thought ‘wow! how on earth am I going to get to everything I want.’ But in looking more carefully at the abstracts and papers, it became clearer. Being able to pick and…

CBT at the edge of Chaos Finding the room was the first test! Should we push competence further, not just skills, knowledge and attitudes to perform to the work tasks, or rather should it be pushed to encompass the “emergent and evolutionary ability to adapt…

Dimensions of On-the-Job learning styles in the nursing profession Hypothesis - if we make employees aware of their OTJ learning styles then they will learn better in the workplace. Learning styles that are in circulation aren’t ideally suited to OTJ…

Common Knowledge technologies we rely on are frail, it is the social activities that make them strong Brown & Duguid 2001 through working in globalised workspace work practice textual practice - artefacts are strongly text based ‘Knowledge is not transmitted…

Quality Development Tools for Work-based Learning in Social and Health Care Quality of course is subjective, related to context and relative and the different players in workbased learning have different emphases. This study emphasised the students as the…