1. Developing Work based Personal Learning
Environments in Small and Medium
Enterprises in the Building and
Construction Industries
Graham Attwell
Pontydysgu

2. Many industries are undergoing a period of rapid
change with new technologies, production
concepts, work processes and materials

3. Shift from
traditional
forms of
production
towards
leaner, agile
and flexible
production
based on high
performance
work systems

4. High levels of communication, numeracy, problem
solving and team working are required as
managerial authority is delegated to the shop
floor

5. Broad Job Classifications which allow functional
flexibility requiring workers to be competent across a
broader range of tasks

6. Organisational learning around new patterns
of activities is based on capturing the learning
and work experiences of individual workers
and teams of workers

7. Flat management hierarchies provide more
responsibility for individual workers and work
teams in problem solving and in organising work
processes

8. Learning and
innovation in
Regional
Clusters

9. PLEs can support networked
informal learning

10. learning takes place in the workplace and
through work processes, is multi
episodic, is often informal, is problem
based and takes place on a just in time
basis

11. learning is highly individualised and
heavily integrated with contextual
work practices

12. TEL can overcome problems of scaling and
systematising informal learning

13. TEL can overcome problems of scaling and
systematising informal learning

14. PLEs are a flexible process to scaffold
individual and community learning
and knowledge development.

15. Ensure
that peer
production
is unlocked

16. Ensure individuals receive scaffolds to
deal with the growing abundance

17. Ensure shared meaning of work practices at
individual, organisational and inter-organisational
levels emerges from these interactions

18. a layer that invites
informal interactions
with people

19. Thank you
for
watching
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