Workplace Learning Partnerships: The KLearn tutorial tools Tool 1b: Introduction to the planning cyc

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Workplace Learning Partnerships The KLearn
tutorial toolsTool 1b Introduction to the
planning cycle

• Prepared by Pekka Kämäräinen
• Bremen 8.11.2006

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Contents

• Introduction
• Overview of the planning cycle
• Step 1-2 Analysing the preconditions
• Step 3-4 Developing the learning arrangements
• Step 5-6 Organising the learning activities
• Step 7-8 Reviewing the learning process

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Introduction

• The KLearn tools are a set of tools that
• support the joint planning of partnership-based
  learning arrangements and
• promote the awareness of learners on the learning
  process (KLearn Knowing of your learning).
• The second introductory tool presents
• an overview of the basic planning cycle and of
  developmental steps
• workspaces for key questions and commentary
  spaces that guide the planning to more fine-tuned
  questions.

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Overview of the planning cycle

• The main phases in planning the learning
  arrangements (analysing, developing, organising,
  and reviewing)
• The successive steps in
• getting information (learning profiles, learning
  prospects)
• using information for planning purposes (learning
  objectives, learning resources)
• getting feedback on the process (learning
  communities, learning experiences)
• using feedback to improve the learning
  arrangements (evaluation of the results
  reflection upon the process)

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Overview of the planning cycle
Working concept
Organising
Developing
Learning Resources
Learning Communi- ties
Learning Objectives
Learning Experiences
Report
Plan
Learning Prospects
Evaluation of Learning
Reviewing
Analysing
Reflection on Learning
Learning Profiles
Starting position
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Analysing the preconditions for learning

• What kind of basic information is needed for the
  development of the learning arrangements?
• How can this information be linked to the
  perspective of developing partnerships and
  networked learning?

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Step 1 Analysing the learning profiles

• Workspace 1 This is a workspace for answering
  the following questions
• What kind of strengths and weaknesses can you
  identify when you analyse yourself as learner at
  workplace?
• What kind of strengths and weaknesses can you
  identify when you analyse your workplace as venue
  for workplace learning?

• Commentary space 1 This is a space for remarks
  on points of interest regarding the development
  of partnership-based learning

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Step 2 Analysing the learning prospects

• Workspace 2 This is a workspace for answering
  the following questions
• What kind of interests and content areas can you
  relate to your own aims to develop yourself as
  learner at workplace?
• What kind of interests and content areas can
  your organisation relate to its interests to
  promote workplace learning at your workplace?

• Commentary space 2 This is a space for remarks
  on points of interest regarding the development
  of partnership-based learning

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Developing the learning arrangements

• What kind of strategic choices need to made
  regarding the development of the learning
  arrangements?
• How can these choices be related to the
  perspective of developing partnerships and
  networked learning?

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Step 3 Setting the learning objectives

• Workspace 3 This is a workspace for answering
  the following questions
• What kind of individual priorities and learning
  goals can you set for yourself as learner at
  workplace?
• What kind of organisational priorities and
  learning goals can your organisation set for
  agreed measures to promote workplace learning?

• Commentary space 3 This is a space for remarks
  on points of interest regarding the development
  of partnership-based learning

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Step 4 Preparation of learning resources

• Workspace 4 This is a workspace for answering
  the following questions
• What kind of learning materials and other
  learning resources would you prefer to use as
  learner at workplace?
• What kind of learning materials and other
  learning resources would your organisation prefer
  to be used as a basis for workplace learning?

• Commentary space 4 This is a space for remarks
  on points of interest regarding the development
  of partnership-based learning

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Organising the learning activities

• What kind of support arrangements and
  facilitating measures can be linked to the
  learning activities?
• How can these measures be related to the
  perspective of developing partnerships and
  networked learning?

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Step 5 Organising the work with learning
communities

• Workspace 5 This is a workspace for answering
  the following questions
• What kind of participation in and collaboration
  with learning communities would you prefer to
  link to your learning at workplace?
• What kind of participation in and collaboration
  with learning communities would your organisation
  favour in the context workplace learning?

• Commentary space 5 This is a space for remarks
  on points of interest regarding the development
  of partnership-based learning

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Step 6 Recording the learning experiences

• Workspace 6 This is a workspace for answering
  the following questions
• What kind of personal recording of your own
  learning experiences would you prefer to link to
  your learning at workplace?
• What kind of shared recording of participants
  learning experiences would your organisation
  favour in the context workplace learning?

• Commentary space 6 This is a space for remarks
  on points of interest regarding the development
  of partnership-based learning

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Reviewing the learning process

• What kind of final evaluation and reflection
  needs to be undertaken in the concluding phase of
  learning process?
• How can these measures be related to the
  perspective of developing partnerships and
  networked learning?

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Step 7 Evaluation of the learning outcomes

• Workspace 7 This is a workspace for answering
  the following questions
• What kind of assessment of your own learning
  results would you prefer to link to your learning
  at workplace?
• What kind of evaluation of the participants
  learning outcomes would your organisation favour
  in the context workplace learning?

• Commentary space 7 This is a space for remarks
  on points of interest regarding the development
  of partnership-based learning

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Step 8 Reflection upon the learning process

• Workspace 8 This is a workspace for answering
  the following questions
• What kind of group-related reflection upon your
  own learning process would you prefer to link to
  your learning at workplace?
• What kind of pattern of reflection upon
  participants learning process would your
  organisation favour in the context workplace
  learning?

• Commentary space 8 This is a space for remarks
  on points of interest regarding the development
  of partnership-based learning

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If you want to proceed further

• For more fine-tuned discussion on the questions,
  look at KLearn tools
• 2a The basic tool to support the planning of
  Individual learning
• 2b The basic tool to support the planning of
  Organisational cooperation.