Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 16 Issue 5

Developing criteria for knowing and learning at work: towards context‐based assessment

Esa Poikela

Traditional assessment is based on perceiving and measuring knowledge possession and practical performance. This kind of assessment provides limited information about the…

Researching learning at work: Exploring an academic‐workplace partnership

Anne M. Phelan, Aleisha D. Harrington, Eileen Mercer

This article examines how a research partnership between a university‐based research centre and a regional health authority operated as a context for promoting and examining…

The effects of epistemological beliefs on workplace learning

Johannes Bauer, Dagmar Festner, Hans Gruber, Christian Harteis, Helmut Heid

Epistemological beliefs are fundamental assumptions about the nature of knowledge and learning. Research in university contexts has shown that they affect the ways and results of…

ECUANET – European Corporate Academies Transnational Best Practice Network

Richard Dealtry

This article describes the formation and forward planning of an important and independent transnational best practice networking development project, i.e. ECUANET. ECUANET's aims…