Informal Learning at Work

Gerhard Messmann is Assistant Professor at the Chair for Vocational Education and Training and Learning in Organisations at the Institute of Educational Science, University of Regensburg, Germany. Mien S. R. Segers is Professor of Corporate Learning at the Department of Educational Research and Development, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Filip Dochy is Professor of Research on Learning and Development, and Corporate Training at the Center for Professional Learning & Development, Corporate Training and Lifelong Learning, KU Leuven, Belgium.

1. Emergence, Theoretical Foundation, and Conceptualisation of Informal Learning at Work Gerhard Messmann, Mien S. R. Segers, Filip Dochy 2. Antecedents of Informal Workplace Learning: A Theoretical Study Eva Kyndt, Natalie Govaerts, Kelly Smet, Filip Dochy 3. Effects of Complexity of Work Tasks on Informal Learning at Work in the IT domain Katrin Hirschmann, Regina H. Mulder 4. Deliberate Practice as a Lever for Professional Judgment – Lessons from Informal Workplace Learning Therese Grohnert, Roger Meuwissen, Wim Gijselaers 5. Informal Learning at Work as a Facilitator of Employees’ Innovative Work Behaviour Maike Gerken, Gerhard Messmann, Dominik E. Froehlich, Simon A. J. Beausaert, Regina H. Mulder, Mien S. R. Segers 6. Vital but Neglected: The Informal Learning of New Teachers in Scotland Rachel Shanks 7. The Potential and Paradox of Informal Learning David Boud, Donna Rooney 8. Informal learning at Work: What Do We Know More and Understand Better? Herman Baert