Posted: April 15th, 2015

Workplace Learning

7156EDN Workplace Learning

Assignment 2

Topic: Developing expertise through workplace learning

The purpose of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to demonstrate your theoretical, conceptual and practical understanding of workplace learning that you gained in this course and appropriately apply these for the development of expert knowledge and skills.

Learning Outcomes Assessed: 1, 2, 3, 4

Weight: 50%

Length: 3000 – 3500 words

Task Description

Select or imagine a novice worker ( i.e. one who has just joined) in your workplace and design a workplace learning plan for him/her to become an expert. Based on the conceptual, theoretical and practical understandings of how workplace learning can contribute to the development of expert knowledge and skills make recommendations about learning provisions for the development of expertise. Use relevant literature to support and justify your arguments.

A suggested approach to this assignment:

Introduction

The introduction should briefly outline:

• Briefly describe the role of the novice worker and his/her current level of knowledge, skills and competencies expected for the role.
• Briefly describe the level of knowledge, skills and competencies expected of an expert in the role.

Note: the novice worker you choose can be a person doing similar work to you, or at another level in the organisation.

Body

Design a learning plan for the worker to develop the types of knowledge, skills and competencies he/she is expected to learn to become an expert. Suggest a schedule of learning episodes, appropriate workplace pedagogies for each episode and how these will contribute to specific learning outcomes. Based on the conceptual, theoretical and practical understandings of how workplace learning can contribute to the development of expert knowledge and skills make recommendations about specific provisions for the development of expertise. State how you will evaluate the effectiveness of the learning plan. Use relevant literature to support and justify your arguments.

Conclusion

Summarise the learning plan and provide recommendations to your manager about any specific affordances to support the worker-learner with his/her learning to advance from being a novice to an expert.

Presenting your assignment

Use the template supplied for Assignment 2.

Submitting your assignment

Please do not send assignments directly to the teaching team. Always keep a copy of any assignment you submit.

All assignments are to be submitted via Turnitin on or before the due date. Be sure to attach an assignment cover sheet (in word format) to the front of your assignment and upload your assignment as a word document through the submission point located on the assessment page of the course web site in Learning@Griffith. This is a simple process and details on how to do this are posted on the course site in Learning@Griffith. It is important that assignments are submitted in this way on or before the due date. Failure to do so will result in delayed grading and mark penalties.