Contextualized Learning

This article, written primarily for a corporate audience, describes three characteristics of contextualized learning: organizational learning; empowered learners; and embedded learning. The latter is the more radical and more interesting of the three: "The nature of work-embedded learning provides content in context — turning the whole learning paradigm on its head. Work-embedded learning considers the individual’s job role and experience level and is accessed as the individual performs work. It does not ask, 'What am I going to teach you?' but 'What work do you do?' and 'What do you need?' When an enterprise looks at a work process and the individual’s role, it can come up with ways to deliver learning embedded into the job, and actually increase the consumption of learning in the organization."