Digital Workplace Learning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Theory of Digital Workplace Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. How We Learn at the Digital Workplace

      • Dirk Ifenthaler

      Pages 3-8

   3. Encouraging Metacognition in Digital Learning Environments

      • Christopher J. Devers, Erin E. Devers, Lorne D. Oke

      Pages 9-22

   4. A New Work-and-Learn Framework

      • Hope Clark, Parminder K. Jassal, Michelle Van Noy, Pamela L. Paek

      Pages 23-41

   5. Supporting Informal Workplace Learning Through Analytics

      • Clara Schumacher

      Pages 43-61

3. Design, Implementation and Assessment for Digital Workplace Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Designing Competence Assessment in VET for a Digital Future

      • Julia Sangmeister, Esther Winther, Viola Deutscher, Sandra Bley, Christine Kreuzer, Susanne Weber

      Pages 65-92

   3. Designing Flipped Learning for Digital Workplace Learning

      • Firat Sarsar, Yusuf Yılmaz

      Pages 93-106

   4. Workplace Learning, Big Data, and Organizational Readiness: Where to Start?

      • Lisa A. Giacumo, Steven W. Villachica, Jeroen Breman

      Pages 107-127

   5. Combining Learning Analytics with Job Market Intelligence to Support Learning at the Workplace

      • Alan Mark Berg, Jiri Branka, Gábor Kismihók

      Pages 129-148

   6. Massive Open Online Courses in Digital Workplace Learning

      • Marc Egloffstein

      Pages 149-166

   7. Creating a MOOC Portal for Workplace Learning

      • Sezin Esfer, Kursat Cagiltay

      Pages 167-185

   8. KFZ4ME.DE: Design-Based Learning Settings for Vocational Education and Training

      • Markus Schäfer, Eckart Diezemann

      Pages 187-208

4. Case Studies and Innovative Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. Can Learning Analytics Find Success in Didactical Measurements? Results from a MOOC Case Study

      • Mohammad Khalil, Martin Ebner

      Pages 211-225

   3. Digitalisation of Work: Between Affordances and Constraints for Learning at Work

      • Christoph Fischer, Michael Goller, Lorraine Brinkmann, Christian Harteis

      Pages 227-249

   4. Visual Technologies to Bridge the Gap Between School and Workplace in Vocational Education

      • Alberto A. P. Cattaneo, Carmela Aprea

      Pages 251-270

   5. Learning Factories in Vocational Schools

      • Ralf Scheid

      Pages 271-289

   6. Online Onboarding: Library Workplace Training in a Trilingual Interactive Online Asynchronous Environment

      • Russell Michalak, Monica D. T. Rysavy

      Pages 291-306

This book aims to provide insight into how digital technologies may bridge and enhance formal and informal workplace learning. It features four major themes:

1. Current research exploring the theoretical underpinnings of digital workplace learning.

2. Insights into available digital technologies as well as organizational requirements for technology-enhanced learning in the workplace.

3. Issues and challenges for designing and implementing digital workplace learning as well as strategies for assessments of learning in the workplace.

4. Case studies, empirical research findings, and innovative examples from organizations which successfully adopted digital workplace learning.

• Digital learning
• Game-based learning
• Massive Open Online Courses
• Learning analytics
• workplace learning
• collaborative learning
• informal learning
• technology for learning
• design for learning
• learning and instruction

• Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

  Dirk Ifenthaler

Dirk Ifenthaler is Chair and Professor for Learning, Design and Technology in the Business School at the University of Mannheim, Germany and Adjunct Professor at Deakin University, Australia. His previous roles include Professor and Director, Centre for Research in Digital Learning at Deakin University, Australia, Manager of Applied Research and Learning Analytics at Open Universities Australia, Professor for Applied Teaching and Learning Research at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Dirk was a 2012 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Professor Ifenthaler’s research focuses on the intersection of cognitive psychology, educational technology, data analytics, and organizational learning. He developed automated and computer-based methodologies for the assessment, analysis, and feedback of graphical and natural language representations, as well as simulation and game environments for teacher education. His research outcomes include numerous co-authored books, book series, book chapters, journal articles, and international conference papers, as well as successful grant funding in Australia, Germany, and USA.

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