About the project
Learning in everyday professional settings becomes more challenging as technologies grow in complexity, and digitalisation intensifies in its form and scope. The challenges extend beyond the development of digital and prescribed competencies.
Rather, professionals are challenged to develop and adapt to new ways of working, which affect forms of expertise and imply changes in the established regime of knowing. As a result, learning is not only required but also generated as part of everyday work.
Furthermore, professional work expands in multiple ways as technologies become interlinked and embedded in processes of digital transformation.
Our own research, and other contributions, have shown how professional work in such contexts often requires multi-layered organizing and systems thinking in a wider, reconfigured work environment.
Yet, most research on professional learning at work focuses on specific technologies or practices within a shorter time span, hence failing to consider the wider set of interdependencies that constitute these processes.
Another challenge is that novel forms of largely invisible or not-recognised work may fall out of scope, even though such work is critical in the ongoing digitalisation processes.
Aims of the project
By exploring learning across empirical cases and human-technology configurations, we aim at developing joint publications as well as a conceptual and methodological ground for future research in this area.
Background
This initiative builds on insights from the CORPUS project and related research conducted by our collaborative partners.
