B867: Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring (TMA: 02)

This weblog offers both a strategic and an operational focus and consider the factors which inform choices about learning and talent development strategies in different contexts. The blog explores a range of workplace interventions which can put these strategies into effect and the models and theories which underpin these. Moreover, emphasis is placed on professionalism by the advancement of workplace, practice-based learning and CPD via the development of coaching and mentoring skills.

Activity 4.1: What is a MOOC?

Timing: Allow 15 minutes for this activity

Timing:

Watch Video 4.1: What is a MOOC?, a report by the BBC reporter David Grossman, on MOOCs and their potential contribution to learning and development.

Take a note of the key arguments for and against MOOCs. Which arguments do you find particularly persuasive, and why? Keep hold of these notes, because you may wish to refer to them in the next activity

B867: Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring (TMA: 02)

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Activity 4.1: What is a MOOC?

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