Engaged Workplace Learning
How might workplaces provide engaging and essential learning opportunities for adults? The ideal learning program/structure would be viewed as integral to work, not something extracurricular. It is of clear, demonstrable value to both the organization and the individual. It is worker-led, energizing, self-directed, informal, inclusive, focused on unearthing expertise within individuals (as opposed to above or outside them) and addresses inequity (either directly or indirectly). It strikes a balance between being structured and unstructured and has an appropriate combination of top-down permission with bottom-up direction/drive.