scholarly journals The Differential Influence of Learner Factors and Learning Context on Different Professional Learning Activities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Hilkenmeier ◽  
Michael Goller ◽  
Niclas Schaper
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Discrete Learning ◽  
Organisational Factors

AbstractParticipation in designated learning opportunities and engagement in workplace learning are very different kinds of professional learning activities: Whereas the former takes place in organised, predefined settings with intended learning objectives, the latter mostly arises as a by-product through everyday experiences at work. Yet, empirical and theoretical models often do not sufficiently differentiate between these two kinds of learning activities. The main goal in the present study is to test whether the two discrete learning activities are indeed facilitated in different ways and by different antecedents. The results of a multi-wave diary study with a sample of 229 German employees show that engagement in workplace learning is not influenced by conscious beliefs connected to learning, which play a central role in most theoretical models explaining participation in designated learning opportunities, underlining the need for an autonomous theory of workplace learning. Furthermore, the current study shows the strong direct, indirect, and moderating influence of organisational learning culture on both kinds of professional learning activities. Possible implications for practitioners to put greater emphasis on organisational factors when designing learning opportunities are discussed.

scholarly journals HOW ENGLISH TEACHERS LEARN IN INDONESIA: TENSION BETWEEN POLICY-DRIVEN AND SELF-DRIVEN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
I. G. A. Lokita Purnamika Utami ◽  
Sarah Prestridge
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
School Based ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Formal School

Professional Development (PD) and Professional Learning (PL) are established terms which are used interchangeably but theoretically have notable differences. The former is formally and externally designed while the latter is more informal and self-directed. These differing characteristics have not been observed in the context where PD is normally governed by government policy. As such, there is little to no research on Indonesian English teachers’ practice, preferences and dispositions for PD or PL. A qualitative study was conducted involving four English teachers from Indonesia who demonstrated active participation in professional development and professional learning activities. Developmental interviews were the main source of data. The study showed distinct variance in these teachers’ preference and action for PL through online networks, self-chosen PD and knowledge-sharing interactions with their colleagues. The study observed compliant dispositions and indifferent dispositions towards school PD policy. The study suggests the need to shift compliancy and policy measures from formal school based professional development to include online professional learning opportunities that the teachers initiate, with the integration of both approaches needing further research and development.

Pygmalion and Employee Learning: The Role of Leader Behaviors

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 1248-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xander M. Bezuijen ◽  
Peter T. van den Berg ◽  
Karen van Dam ◽  
Henk Thierry
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Leader Behaviors ◽  
Pygmalion Effect ◽  
Exchange Relationship ◽  
Goal Difficulty ◽  
Goal Specificity ◽  
Feedback Data

The aim of this study was to investigate which leader behaviors mediate the relationship between leader expectations and employee engagement in learning activities. Based on Rosenthal’s Pygmalion model, five potential mediators of the Pygmalion effect were distinguished: leader—member exchange relationship, goal setting (i.e., goal specificity, goal difficulty), providing learning opportunities, and feedback. Data from 904 manager—subordinate dyads in six organizations showed that leader expectations were related to employee engagement in learning activities. Goal specificity, goal difficulty, and providing learning opportunities proved to be mediators. These findings suggest that goal setting lies at the heart of the Pygmalion effect.

scholarly journals Public health platforms: an emerging informatics approach to health professional learning and development

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Gray
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Design Of Learning Environments

Health informatics has a major role to play in optimising the management and use of data, information and knowledge in health systems. As health systems undergo digital transformation, it is important to consider informatics approaches not only to curriculum content but also to the design of learning environments and learning activities for health professional learning and development. An example of such an informatics approach is the use of large-scale, integrated public health platforms on the Internet as part of health professional learning and development. This article describes selected examples of such platforms, with a focus on how they may influence the direction of health professional learning and development.

Gender-equal organizations as a prerequisite for workplace learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Johansson ◽  
Lena Abrahamsson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to explore how gendering of the learning environment acts to shape the design and outcome of workplace learning. The primary intention is to reflect on the idea of gender-equal organizations as a prerequisite for workplace learning. Design/methodology/approach A review of literature relating to gender and workplace learning was conducted with the relation between gender-(un)equal organizations and the design and outcome of workplace learning as the focus of the analysis. This was followed by an analysis of the characteristics of an organization that promote both adoptive and developmental workplace learning. Findings The literature shows how the gendering of the learning environment acts to shape workplace learning, often by preventing development learning and limiting adoptive learning to already privileged groups. To facilitate development, workplace learning requires that organizations are guided by nuanced knowledge of work organization and strategically use workplace learning to challenge existing power relations; that they are not characterised by gender segregation; and that the presence and protection of gendered practices and identities do not dominate learning activities. Practical implications Stressing gender-equal organizations as a prerequisite for learning requires stakeholders to integrate a gender perspective in the design of workplace learning. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature considering workplace learning by highlighting how gender-equal organizations constitutes a prerequisite for workplace learning and in defining a few basic characteristics of such organizations.

scholarly journals DISTANCE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS ' INDEPENDENC

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
Sh. Zh. Kolumbayeva ◽  
◽  
A. K. Aitpayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Educational Standards ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Effective Form ◽  
Human Education

The article discusses the possibilities of distance learning. Today, distance learning is intensively included in the educational sphere, which can be explained by a number of advantages of this pedagogical system. Moreover, some experts consider such training to be the most effective form of human education, regardless of age, since the training tools created on the basis of modern media in combination with new technological solutions, as well as modern methodological support, in principle, allow you to independently master the ways of learning activities, create conditions for independent development of subjects of the educational cycle. Distance learning opportunities are a set of methods, forms and means of interaction with a person in the process of independent, but controlled development of a certain array of knowledge. The training technology is based on the Foundation of a certain content and must meet the requirements of its presentation. The content of the proposed knowledge is accumulated in special courses and modules designed for distance learning and based on the existing educational standards in the country, as well as in data and knowledge banks, video libraries, and so on.

scholarly journals Development of Indonesian language book using glasser model

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Syamsuyurnita Syamsuyurnita ◽  
Dewi Kesuma Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Learning Tasks

This study aims to describe the process of developing teaching materials by using Glasser model in the Indonesian language course in FKIP UMSU. The sample of the research is 34-second semester A morning students in the Study Program of Language and Literature of Indonesia, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah, Sumatera Utara. The questionnaire instrument was used to determine the student's response and activeness to the developed teaching material, the observation sheet used to know the condition of the students in the learning process, and the validation sheet instrument used for the development of teaching materials based on SAP using Glasser model. The result of descriptive research on student's response shows that 100% of students were happy about the teaching materials of Bahasa Indonesia (Teaching Materials, Guided Exercises and Lecture Strategies) and 91.66% of students think that the teaching materials are new to them. After using the teaching materials developed by the researcher and following the teaching and learning activities, students (100%) are interested in following the next lesson, the readability of the language of the learning material is easy to understand (91.66%) and the guidance given by the lecturer is clear (100%). While the self-employed activity is fun for students (91.66%). Students activity in learning activities was shown by their involvement in problem solving, his involvement in carrying out learning tasks, assessing his ability, digging and developing his own knowledge. Based on the validation sheet on the test of learning result 1 obtained information that from the 3 learning objectives formulated in SAP I and SAP II there is 1 learning objectives that have not yet completed. Based on the results of descriptive analysis of the test results of learning 2 it was obtained that the 3 learning objectives formulated in SAP III and SAP IV was finished learning objective.

scholarly journals Wanneer bevordert en wanneer hindert werkdruk het werkplekleren?

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joris Van Ruysseveldt ◽  
Marius van Dijke
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Control Model ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Working Adults ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Learning Hypothesis ◽  
High Workload ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Relationship

When does workload promote workplace learning opportunities, and when does workload hinder workplace learning opportunities? When does workload promote workplace learning opportunities, and when does workload hinder workplace learning opportunities? Building on theoretical frameworks like the Job Demands Control model we tested whether the relationship between workload and employees’ experiences of opportunities for workplace learning is of an inverted u-shaped nature. Furthermore we researched whether autonomy moderates this relationship. We predicted that at moderate levels of autonomy rising workload was associated with increasing learning opportunities at low levels of workload, but with decreasing learning opportunities at high levels of workload. Also, we predicted that low autonomy prevents positive effects of moderate workload from materializing whereas high autonomy makes high workload less destructive to the learning process. We found support for these ideas in a large and heterogeneous sample of Flemish working adults (FWM, 2010). These results integrate conflicting prior findings and extend Karasek’s (1979) active learning hypothesis. They also have clear implications for job redesign practices aiming to promote workplace learning opportunities.

scholarly journals Design of an Online Curriculum Promoting Transformative Learning in Post Professional Doctoral Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Mary Provident ◽  
Joyce Salls ◽  
Cathy Dolhi ◽  
Jodi , Schreiber ◽  
Amy Mattila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Cohort Model ◽  
Online Program ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Online Curriculum ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Curricular Design

Written reflections of 113 occupational therapy clinical doctoral students who graduated from an online program between 2007 and 2013 were analyzed for themes which reflected transformative learning and characteristics of curricular design which promoted transformative learning. Qualitative analyses of written reflections were performed. Several themes emerged which are presented using the framework of Person/Learner, Environment/Learning Context, and Occupation/Engagement in Learning Activities. Strategies such as active learning; assignments that directly apply to students’ work settings; implementation of a cohort model; and use of reflection, dialog, and project implementation appear to be effective in facilitating transformative learning in an online clinical doctoral program.

scholarly journals An Examination of the #NGSSchat Storify Database

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conrad Borchers ◽  
Joshua Rosenberg ◽  
Christian Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
Next Generation Science Standards ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Science Standards ◽  
Educational Stakeholders ◽  
Synchronous Chat ◽  
Selection Of

Teachers frequently use Twitter to engage in professional learning activities. A prominent example of teachers’ use of Twitter for such purposes is evident within the #NGSSchat community, which encouraged synchronous (at the same time) conversations between teachers and other educational stakeholders regarding the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) curriculum reform in the United States. Notably, #NGSSchat moderators archived the chats via the Storify platform, which has subsequently been used by researchers to understand science teachers’ professional learning activities on Twitter. However, what has not been established is the representativeness of this archive of #NGSSchat tweets. In other words, whether those who archived #NGSSchat content selected only a (potentially biased) selection of tweets is as yet unknown. Thus, in this study, we examined the Storify #NGSSchat database and compared it with raw data requests using the Twitter API. We found that the synchronous chats most data was adequately achieved. Contrarily (but as anticipated given what distinguishes the #NGSSchat community-synchronous conversations), the Storify #NGSSchat database did not capture most data outside these synchronous chat sessions. Importantly, we did not find an indication of systematic content- or user-driven tweet exclusion within the synchronous NGSS chat sessions on Storify, suggesting that the #NGSSchat archive via Storify (and potentially others like it) may be used by researchers for most research-related purposes.

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