Summary
The idea of adaptive learning in the workplace has been around for some years - and has a clear relationship with the development of ideas around performance improvement as well as being linked to the technological continuum concerned with performance support. The boundary between having to learn something in order to perform a specific task and a tool to help you perform has always been somewhat blurred. I have always made the distinction that learning should lead you to a competence you can apply in a number of related tasks; a performance support tool applies only to the specific task for which it was designed. Traditional education tends to view learners as individuals who arrive into a class with more or less the same level of ignorance and when they leave, they will have more or less the same level of new knowledge/skills. In the workplace, as we move away from the Taylorist model, we need to take account of the differences between people, their performance improvement needs and concomitantly, their learning needs.
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The Blurred Boundaries
I was recently evaluating the final results of a large research and development project on adaptive learning technologies. The aim of the project was to provide new technological solutions to support adaptive learning in the workplace. The team comprised academic researchers (mainly software engineers and computer scientists) some ICT product and services providers and some training pr...
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