Connecting work and learning: Design engineers' learning at work

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 18, Issue , 2006, Pages 403-413

  Hager, Paul ^a   Brown, Tony ^a   Collin, Kaija ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Experience; Finland; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750700495     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665620610692971     Document Type: Article

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