Lecture 37 – Professional Learning Flashcards
Adult Learning
List the combination of principles and learner characteristics for adult learning
• Relevance - need to know the reason for learning
something
• Experience - provides the basis for learning activities
including error
• Responsible - need to be responsible for their own
education
• Involved - be involved in the creation of it
• Immediacy - most interested in learning those things
having immediate relevance to them
• Problem-centred - adult learning is problem-centered
rather than content-oriented
• Internal motivation - respond better to internal vs
external motivators
Self-directed Learning (SDL) - Definition 1: A process
What are the 4 steps that SDL process involves?
- Identifying a learning need
- Selecting a learning experience
- Locating resources
- Evaluating learning
SDL - Definition 2: Characteristics of the learner
List the 6 characteristics of the SDL:
• Places learning activities within a social context
• Cites other people as the most important resource
• Creates a learning network of peers
• Reports that random, incidental events are significant
triggers of learning paths
• Contradicts traditional learning paths
• Emphasizes passion for learning
Professional Learning at Work
What are the 3 learning objectives (central to the experience of professionals):
• Learning from mistakes
• Learning through everyday work, interactions with
patients, their families, conditions, or circumstances
• Producing knowledge about (inter)professional roles,
and hierarchies
Learning for a New Roles - hospital pharmacy managers
Since the PM noted that their structured learning did not prepare them for their new role, how did the PM learn to prepare/perform the role?
- PM learned through ‘experience’
• Mistakes – unplanned or vicarious discovery
• Experience – planned or unplanned discovery
• Conflict – real and perceived - PM noted the importance of reflection
- thinking about their work experiences
- Social aspects of learning were prominent
- discussing experiences with & having support of
team members
- discussing experiences with & having support of
- Their learning had an affective component
What are Alberta pharmacists preferred ways of learning? (6)
More preferred the following 4 ways: • At work with peers and teams • With peers, face to face events • Teaching in practice / precepting students • With a mentor
- In a course, blended/online
- In a course, online
What is formal learning?
Formal learning programs are structured and are typically institutionally sponsored and involve:
• Repeated interactions
• Expert facilitated, research informed
• Outcomes, objectives
• Learning activities
• Feedback
• Exams and assignments
Do you receive anything after completing formal learning programs?
• Degree program • Professional development, continuing education course • Certificate • Residency • Fellowship
Characteristics of informal learning?
• Intentional • Not highly structured • Controlled by learner • Reflection on the experience • Workplace • May involve: - SDL - Networking - Coaching - Mentoring
Characteristics of Incidental Learning?
• Not intentional • Byproduct of someone else’s action • Reflection on the experience - Observation - Interpersonal interaction - Vicarious
____ Learning : Presence of Action (intentional) +
Presence of Reflection (conscious)
____ Learning : Presence of Action (intentional) +
Absence of Reflection
____ Learning : Absence of Action +
Presence of Reflection (conscious)
____ Learning : Absence of Action +
Absence of Reflection
Informal Learning
Formal Learning
Incidental Learning
Non-Learning
