"When learning is haphazard like this, it's hard for young doctors to see the entire picture," said Dr. Vineet Arora, an assistant dean at Pritzker who is working on the Teaching Value Project.
If companies fail to map the range of skills to be covered, learning risks becoming haphazard and is more likely to be driven by the need to preserve company productivity (Chan 2014; Fuller and Unwin 2004; Smith 2000).
Having a designed apprenticeship program at the workplace that has mapped the range of tasks and skills to be covered will increase opportunities for apprentices to develop broad expertise when learning is not haphazard and productivity driven (Chan 2014; Fuller and Unwin 2004).
Elsewhere (I studied at Oxford), I've found the learning experience equally stimulating, but much more haphazard.
This contribution is the more important since research and experience have shown that workplace learning is implicit, haphazard, and dictated by the demands of the workplace (Eraut 2004) rather than by students' learning needs (Collins et al. 1989).
Without being anchored in the defining context of the Holocaust, haphazard exposure to a mélange of disparate conflicts, ethnic cleansings and other atrocities serves only to blur understanding and learning.
While there was some evidence of learning from previous operations and from the early stages of the IDP response, the overall process of learning has been haphazard and ad-hoc.
Still, teaching of geography is haphazard, and most students who learn it study it out of interest, not because a teacher asks them to.
