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Creating Successful Work Based Learning
The Inaugural Conference of the New British Institute for Learning & Development
Wednesday, 16th May 2007
Why attend this conference?
The UK faces a major challenge in the development of appropriate work based skills and expertise. This is a challenge that affects us all whether as employer or employee in the work place, as educator or trainer and ultimately as consumer and citizen as nations compete in the global economy.
The recent Leitch report outlines an ambitious vision that the UK must become a world leader in skills and that radical change must take place right across the skills spectrum with the task to embed a culture of learning. The focus is on adult skills because 70% of the 2020 working age population have already left compulsory education - their principal place of updating skills and expertise is in the workplace.
The opportunity for learning and development professionals is clear - that is to harness all of the skills in learning design, in development, in the use of both established techniques and in new digital technologies to provide opportunities for learning across all sectors and at all levels - with a focus on the workplace.
Work based learning presents a particular challenge and this conference seeks to address this by bringing together presenters from a variety backgrounds who can engage with you in the key issues.
What is work based learning?
There are a number of definitions and the conference will assume a broad understanding which is a learning or training programme that is undertaken in the workplace or a simulated work environment; this may include structured training and/or assessment, observation of work practices, case study analysis or other models. It will frequently use a range of techniques and methodologies and often incorporate informal approaches - a challenge for learning design.
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