Co-Creating Autonomous Learning Solutions : Case: CORALL – Coaching-Based Online Resources for Autonomous Learning of LSP
Laasala, Linda (2021)
Laasala, Linda
2021
All rights reserved. This publication is copyrighted. You may download, display and print it for Your own personal use. Commercial use is prohibited.
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202103173513
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202103173513
Tiivistelmä
The objective of thesis was to participate in one co-creation Advisory Board workshop including planning the structure and methods of the workshop, help implement co-creation activities and analysing the co-creation workshop data. The purpose of the workshop was to find new creative solutions to promote autonomous learning of Higher education students and employees in companies and to identify which factors hinder or support autonomous learning. Thesis is made as a part of the Erasmus+ co-funded CORALL-project, whose aim is to carry out research on autonomous learning needs in global contexts, test and develop autonomous learning tools and online modules together with students and companies and provide support for coaches and supervisors in guiding the processes of autonomous learning.
The theoretical framework is based on literature and research on autonomous learning, workplace learning, and co-creation as a research method. The most significant theoretical sources used are Holec’s definition of autonomous learning (1979), Self-Determination Theory by Deci and Ryan (2017), and Tassinari’s The Dynamic Model of Learner Autonomy (2012). In terms of workplace learning, the most significant theoretical framework is the advanced model of workplace learning by Illeris (2011).
The study was conducted in the form of a co-creation workshop together with the Advisory Board members of the CORALL project in March 2020. The participants of the workshop were three world-of-work experts, one university student and two university experts. As the need for autonomous learning is a key working life competence, finding solutions for its development requires joint development efforts by students, educational experts, and world-of work representatives.
According to the findings, employees’ autonomous learning skills and competences can be supported by tools that facilitate self-management and time management skills and by provided employees time to learn. Factors that hinder employee’s autonomous learning are, for example, deficiencies in the employee’s self-management skills, low level of work motivation, and shortcomings in the organizational feedback processes. According to the workshop participants, an autonomous learner’s dream tools include visual tools that help align personal goals, team goals and strategic organizational goals. Such tools also help develop the overall learning culture of the whole organization.
The theoretical framework is based on literature and research on autonomous learning, workplace learning, and co-creation as a research method. The most significant theoretical sources used are Holec’s definition of autonomous learning (1979), Self-Determination Theory by Deci and Ryan (2017), and Tassinari’s The Dynamic Model of Learner Autonomy (2012). In terms of workplace learning, the most significant theoretical framework is the advanced model of workplace learning by Illeris (2011).
The study was conducted in the form of a co-creation workshop together with the Advisory Board members of the CORALL project in March 2020. The participants of the workshop were three world-of-work experts, one university student and two university experts. As the need for autonomous learning is a key working life competence, finding solutions for its development requires joint development efforts by students, educational experts, and world-of work representatives.
According to the findings, employees’ autonomous learning skills and competences can be supported by tools that facilitate self-management and time management skills and by provided employees time to learn. Factors that hinder employee’s autonomous learning are, for example, deficiencies in the employee’s self-management skills, low level of work motivation, and shortcomings in the organizational feedback processes. According to the workshop participants, an autonomous learner’s dream tools include visual tools that help align personal goals, team goals and strategic organizational goals. Such tools also help develop the overall learning culture of the whole organization.