Technology-enhanced professional learning

Littlejohn, A. and Margaryan, A. (2014) Technology-enhanced professional learning. In: Billett, S., Harteis, C. and Gruber, H. (eds.) International Handbook on Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning. Series: Springer international handbooks of education. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 1187-1212. ISBN 9789401789011 (doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-8902-8_43)

Abstract

Societal and technological changes are transforming the ways people work and learn. As work roles evolve, learning for work becomes continual and personalised. These transformations evidenced in work and learning practices are partly governed by advances in technology. Consideration of work practices, professional learning processes and technologies mediating work and learning within a single domain of ‘Technology-enhanced Professional Learning’ enables analysis of the dialectical relationship between technology and practice. This chapter begins by presenting a single framework that integrates perspectives across the domains of work practices, learning processes and digital technologies. Key trends are outlined from the literature within each domain. Using a framework for TEPL as an analytical lens, emerging work and technology practices and their implications for professional learning both in and for work are examined. Finally, the chapter outlines the implications of these developments for work and learning.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Keywords: Technology-enhanced learning, professional learning, e-learning, work-based learning, workplace learning.
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Littlejohn, Professor Allison
• Authors: Littlejohn, A., and Margaryan, A.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education
• Publisher: Springer
• ISBN: 9789401789011
• Published Online: 27 May 2014