1. Workplace
Learning
Hub
Proposal to the Professional
Development Programmes
Advisory Committee
University of Johannesburg

2. concept
purpose
opportunities
business model

3. Workplace learning hub
1 concept 2 purpose 3 opportunities
Sharing research and Collaborating to 1. Build a robust skills
• accelerate skills development Community
best practice in
development, of Practice
workplace learning • work smarter, 2. Systemically link practice
• engage and empower and research, bridging
individuals the divide
• Achieving vision of 3. Collect and collate
“Future-fit professional research and good
graduate” practice
• And ongoing professional 4. Describe, promote and
development support informal learning
5. Capitalise on modern
information,
communication and
collaboration technology

4. • Develop knowledge map
– Domains, concepts, authors, actors
Business model • A survey of local research
– books, masters, doctoral theses,
Based on new role and articles
location of Professional • Collect grey documents
Development Unit – Legislation, policy documents, green
and white papers
Broad brush strokes • Create a platform for collecting
good/best practice
– Sharing ideas (Knowledge @
wharton)
• Establish
– challenges, research trends and
priorities
– community of practice platform for
SD research and sharing good/best
practice

5. Knowledge maps
Gibbons Mode 1
Bodies of Knowledge
Conceptual Mapping
Authors
Theories / Models
Texts/Monographs
Journals
Professional Associations
Discipline based &
Debates / Frontier Issues Interdisciplinary knowledges
UJ
WL Hub
Gibbons Mode 2
Knowledge Producers
Domain mapping
• DHET (DoL, DST, DTI)
• Actors/ organisations Users /
• SETAs • Best practice/ Consumers
• SD Practitioners • interventions • Industry
• Funders • Knowledge products
• Sectors
• Business
• Associations / Societies • Government
• SMME’s
Acknowledgement: • YOU
Prof Johann Mouton, 2003

6. Growing from
“passive” advisors
to active practitioners
and then to movers and shakers

7. Epistemology of
Candidacies Work integrated Practice
learning
Reflective
practice
Skills
Social Development
Sit by
learning Learning
Nellie
Communities of organisation
Workplace Practice
On-the-job
learning
training
Informal learning
Professional
Training
development
Knowledge creating Cognitive
companies apprenticeships
Work
experience
Knowledge curation
Apprenticeships
Internships
Situated
Knowledge learning
management Tri-modal
Professional practice
learning
OFO Course - SEIFSA 2012 7

8. • Trans-disciplinary
Challenges – Education
– Sociology
– Psychology
– Business
– Management
– HRD, ETD, L&D
• Who actually cares?

9. • Incubation team
What is required? • Business model
– Expanded Logic Model
Out-of- the box thinking
– Partners, clients, consumers
• Business plan
– Short term objectives
– Medium term objectives
– Long-term goal
• Budget
– Administrative Assistant
– IT specialist
– Subject matter enthusiast

10. Structure - traditional
WL Hub
Manager
Assistant
Client Researcher Researcher
liaison 1 2…

11. • Manager
Structure – Administrative Assistant
Out-of- the box thinking
– IT specialist
– Subject matter enthusiast
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• Community of interested
persons
– Interest groups
– On-line discussions
– Connections

12. Workplace Learning Hub - Partners
Development World of
1 Academia 2 Institutions 3 work
1. Universities 1. Government 1. Corporates
2. Research Institutes agencies 2. Employers
2. SETAs 3. HR
3. Providers 4. HRD
4. Professional bodies
5. SMME Incubators

13. Next steps
Your ideas today
Small group to develop
business model …
Detailed plans