Continuity and learning
Discover the practical and professional aspects of workplace learning in this free course. Explore biographical learning and conduct informal interviews to enhance your understanding of lifelong learning. Gain valuable insights into specific dimensions of workplace learning and develop your skills in planning and carrying out interviews.
This free course, Continuity and learning, has a practical and professional development focus. You will explore interactive dimensions of workplace learning: how people and workplace cultures create formal, informal, planned and unplanned opportunities to learn. You will read about ‘biographical learning’ research, where adults develop narratives to better understand key points of their learning lives. You will plan and carry out a brief, informal interview with a colleague, and your colleague will interview you, on themes of learning and work. To complete this OpenLearn course you will write a short draft of the key points of the interview and reflect on your own learning biography.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Identify specific dimensions of workplace learning
Understand the concept of biographical learning
Plan and carry out an informal interview about lifelong learning.