3. Providing training for the next generation of workers will require considerably flexibility. All three generations ( baby boomers, Gen Xers, and millennials ) still require training, but each has its own focus, perspective, and expectations about that training. Additionally each generation will be performing slightly different roles in the coming years of the workforce. To successfully manage this multigenerational workforce, workplace learning and performance professionals will need to provide training and technology that fits both the learning styles and lifestyles of the diverse workforce. Learning Styles (Ware, April 2007, Training & Development)

4. My theory research on transitional learning in work situations focuses on concepts such as ‘productive learning’ and ‘andragogy of vocational learning’. In investigating what makes learning productive and what learning styles enhance this, there is a tendency to take the notion of learning at work as unproblematic. My theory paper recognizes that much writing on learning styles is strongly shaped by people’s understandings of learning in traditional and formal education settings. Such assumptions distort attempts to understand transitional learning at work. Furthermore, the main focus of my theory is to represent a concept of ‘learning styles’ and to identify the implications of this for attempts to understand transitional learning at work and the conditions that enhance it. In addition, The development of using learning styles that promises to do more justice to the richness of learning and evidence why learning styles are important in adult learning and training in the working-class life… Learning at Work

8. Kolb (1995) Research Theories Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle

9. Jarvis (1994) Research Theories Kolb’s Cycle Developed – Jarvis’ (experiential) Learning

11. Dunn & Dunn (1995) Research Theories Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles Model – 21 Elements

12. Research Theories Smith (2004) The Relationships Between Teaching, Learning & Support Strategies

13. Research Theories Marsick & Watkins (2001) Marsick’s Informal & Incidental Learning Theory

15. Weas (2008) Theory of Transitional Learning

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