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WorkplaceLearning
Hub
Proposal to the Professional Development Programmes
Advisory Committee University of Johannesburg
concept
purpose
opportunities
business model
1. Build a robust skills development Community of Practice
2. Systemically link practice and research, bridging the divide
3. Collect and collate research and good practice
4. Describe, promote and support informal learning
5. Capitalise on modern information, communication and collaboration technology
Collaborating to • accelerate skills
development, • work smarter, • engage and empower
individuals • Achieving vision of
“Future-fit professional graduate”
• And ongoing professional development
Sharing research and best practice in workplace learning
concept1 purpose2 opportunities3
Workplace learning hub
Business model
• Develop knowledge map– Domains, concepts, authors, actors
• A survey of local research– books, masters, doctoral theses,
articles• Collect grey documents
– Legislation, policy documents, green and white papers
• Create a platform for collecting good/best practice– Sharing ideas (Knowledge @
wharton)• Establish
– challenges, research trends and priorities
– community of practice platform for SD research and sharing good/best practice
Based on new role and location of Professional Development Unit
Broad brush strokes
Gibbons Mode 2Knowledge Producers
• DHET (DoL, DST, DTI)• SETAs• SD Practitioners• Funders
Domain mapping • Actors/ organisations• Best practice/• interventions• Knowledge products• Sectors• Associations / Societies
Users / Consumers
• Industry• Business• Government• SMME’s• YOU
Gibbons Mode 1Bodies of KnowledgeConceptual MappingAuthorsTheories / ModelsTexts/MonographsJournalsProfessional AssociationsDebates / Frontier Issues
Discipline based &Interdisciplinary knowledges
UJ
WL Hub
Knowledge maps
Acknowledgement: Prof Johann Mouton, 2003
Growing from
“passive” advisors
to active practitioners
and then to movers and shakers
OFO Course - SEIFSA 2012 7
Work integrated learning
Work experience
Skills Development
Training
On-the-job training
Social learning
Sit by Nellie
Workplace learning
Communities of Practice
Apprenticeships
Cognitive apprenticeships
Situated learning
Candidacies
Internships
Tri-modal learning
Reflective practice
Learning organisation
Knowledge management
Knowledge creating companies
Knowledge curation
Informal learning
Epistemology of Practice
Professional practice
Professional development
Challenges
• Trans-disciplinary– Education– Sociology– Psychology– Business– Management– HRD, ETD, L&D
• Who actually cares?
What is required?
• Incubation team• Business model– Expanded Logic Model– Partners, clients, consumers
• Business plan– Short term objectives– Medium term objectives– Long-term goal
• Budget– Administrative Assistant– IT specialist– Subject matter enthusiast
Out-of- the box thinking
Structure - traditional
WL Hub Manager
Client liaison
Researcher 1
Researcher 2…
Assistant
Structure
• Manager– Administrative Assistant– IT specialist– Subject matter enthusiast
--------------------------• Community of interested
persons– Interest groups– On-line discussions– Connections
Out-of- the box thinking
1. Corporates2. Employers3. HR4. HRD
1. Government agencies
2. SETAs3. Providers4. Professional
bodies5. SMME Incubators
1. Universities2. Research
Institutes
Academia1Development Institutions
2 World of work3
Workplace Learning Hub - Partners
Next steps
Your ideas today
Small group to develop business model …
Detailed plans