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Workplace Learning Hub Proposal to the Professional Development Programmes Advisory Committee University of Johannesburg

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WorkplaceLearning

Hub

Proposal to the Professional Development Programmes

Advisory Committee University of Johannesburg

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concept

purpose

opportunities

business model

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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

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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

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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

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Growing from

“passive” advisors

to active practitioners

and then to movers and shakers

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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

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Challenges

• Trans-disciplinary– Education– Sociology– Psychology– Business– Management– HRD, ETD, L&D

• Who actually cares?

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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

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Structure - traditional

WL Hub Manager

Client liaison

Researcher 1

Researcher 2…

Assistant

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Structure

• Manager– Administrative Assistant– IT specialist– Subject matter enthusiast

--------------------------• Community of interested

persons– Interest groups– On-line discussions– Connections

Out-of- the box thinking

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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

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Next steps

Your ideas today

Small group to develop business model …

Detailed plans