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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Toiviainen, Hanna; Lallimo, Jiri; Hong, Jianzhong – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: This article aims to analyze emergent learning practices for globalizing work through two research questions: "What are the conceptualizations of work represented by the Virtual Factory and how do they mediate globalizing work?" and "What is the potential of expansive learning efforts to expand conceptualizations towards the emergent…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Workplace Learning, Learning Theories, Social Responsibility
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Toiviainen, Hanna; Kerosuo, Hannele; Syrjala, Tuula – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: The paper aims to argue that new tools are needed for operating, developing and learning in work-life networks where academic and practice knowledge are intertwined in multiple levels of and in boundary-crossing across activities. At best, tools for learning are designed in a process of co-configuration, as the analysis of one tool,…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Electronic Equipment, Models, Administrators
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Toiviainen, Hanna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the research methodology of analyzing learning in inter-organizational networks based on an object-oriented approach. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws from the cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), specifically from the concepts of the object of activity, developmental…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Cooperation, Social Networks, Foreign Countries