5/28/2023 0 Comments Adult learning on the job trainng![]() The practical aspects of learning have been found to be particularly important for workers with low levels of formal education (Brown & Bimrose, Citation2018). This has potential to make learning and skills development very effective, because on-the-job training and learning often takes place as learning by doing, allowing for new knowledge and skills to be practised immediately. They are highly relevant to the individual and the employer, an issue considered important for the quest of raising participation rates in adult learning (ILO, Citation2011). Work-related training and non-formal and informal workplace learning have many advantages compared to skills development provided in training institutes. As pointed out in the report, Global Skills Trends, Training Needs and Lifelong Learning Strategies for the Future of Work ( Citation2018), prepared by the ILO and OECD for the G20 Employment Working Group meeting in June 2018, the changing world of work poses a huge challenge on traditional education and training systems and calls for new approaches to lifelong learning.Īs training institutions are struggling with rethinking and renewing their long-held practices and modus operandi, employers have realized not only the benefits but also the necessity of promoting continuous learning and skills development in the context of work and at the workplace. OECD Skills Strategy and EU’s New Skills Agenda for Europe) for skills development and the future of work, and these are being reflected in national skills strategies. Supranational organisations, such as The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Labour Organization (ILO) and European Union (EU), have developed strategies (e.g. These impact not only the development of new skills and due skills needs, as well as skills imbalances, but also forms of organizing work (ILO/OECD, Citation2018). Globalisation, technology change with further digitalisation, together with demographic change and climate changes are transforming the world of work. Work-related training and non-formal and informal workplace learning are increasingly being recognised as a key to lifelong learning and to realising the potential for skills development.
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