Bridging the Gap: Work-Based Learning and the Business School

What is it about?

Educators in the field of business education are frequently looking for ways to make their teaching more relevant to the subsequent careers of their students, but this transition is difficult to model in the classroom alone. But what if there was a method to embed learning directly into the actual challenges of the workplace? This article argues that such a method exists within the teaching method of work-based learning wherein knowledge is acquired in the midst of practice and dedicated to the task at hand. The feature goes on to describe such issues as how this form of learning is orchestrated, how it changes the role of the teacher, how it operates as a kind of organizational learning in the digital era, and how it relates to the practice of leadership.

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