{"id":553,"date":"2018-07-02T00:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T00:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missional.university\/studybeyond\/?page_id=553"},"modified":"2020-02-08T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T16:30:16","slug":"action-learning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/missional.university\/experientiallearning\/home\/learning\/action-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Action Learning<\/h3>\n
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Action\u00a0learning (AL) is an approach to working with and developing people that uses work on an actual project or problem as a way to learn. It is learning by doing in a controlled environment.1 The practice of AL requires involvement in a real, complex, and oftentimes stressful problem.2\u00a0 Working in small groups, people tackle important organizational issues and learn from their attempts to change things. Often, a learning coach works with the group to help members learn how to balance their work with the learning from that work. Through a continuous process of learning and reflection within collaborative environment, individuals learn with and from each other as they work on solving real problems.3<\/p>\n

There are multiple benefits of action learning. These benefits are:<\/p>\n

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  1. It encourages innovative solutions to new and actual problems presented in a highly dynamic global work environment. This is because AL is a question focus approach.<\/li>\n
  2. It allows organizations to align learning strategically with their organizational or business goals. This is because AL is a \u201cresults driven learning process.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. It creates learning organizations. Learning organizations develop resilience and are therefore better poised to survive and thrive in a fast changing environment.<\/li>\n
  4. AL allows organizations to build their workers up without compromising organizational effectiveness. This is because AL \u201cbalances working on a problem and learning through that process.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. AL allows for \u201ctransfer of learning from classroom to the work environment.\u201d4<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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    Reference List<\/h3>\n
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    1. David\u00a0L.\u00a0Dotlich\u00a0and\u00a0James\u00a0L.\u00a0Noel,\u00a0Action\u00a0Learning:
      \nHow\u00a0the\u00a0World\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Top\u00a0Companies\u00a0are\u00a0ReCreating\u00a0their
      \nLeaders\u00a0and\u00a0Themselves\u00a0<\/em>(San\u00a0Francisco:\u00a0Jossey-Bass,\u00a01999),\u00a01.<\/li>\n
    2. Judy O'neil and Victoria J. Marsick,\u00a0Understanding
      \nAction Learning\u00a0<\/em>(New York: AMACOM, 2007), 5, accessed
      \nJuly 13, 2018,\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/2L4vXrg<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Ian\u00a0McGill\u00a0and\u00a0Liz\u00a0Beaty,\u00a0Action\u00a0Learning:\u00a0A\u00a0Guide\u00a0for
      \nProfessional,\u00a0Management\u00a0and\u00a0Educational\u00a0Development
      \n<\/em>(London:\u00a0Kogan\u00a0Page,\u00a01995),\u00a021.<\/li>\n
    4. Judy O'neil and Victoria J. Marsick,\u00a0xvii.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Action\u00a0learning (AL) is an approach to working with and developing people that uses work on an actual project or problem as a way to learn. It is learning by doing in a controlled environment.1 The practice of AL requires involvement… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":286,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/builder.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-553","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missional.university\/experientiallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missional.university\/experientiallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missional.university\/experientiallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missional.university\/experientiallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missional.university\/experientiallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missional.university\/experientiallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/missional.university\/experientiallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553\/revisions\/1893"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missional.university\/experientiallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missional.university\/experientiallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}