Design criteria for work-based learning: Merrill's First Principles of Instruction expanded.

Collis, Betty and Margaryan, Anoush (2005) Design criteria for work-based learning: Merrill's First Principles of Instruction expanded. British Journal of Educational Technology, 36 (5). pp. 725-738. ISSN 0007-1013

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Abstract:	In multinational corporations, new models of learning are developing. A particular model with direct applications for challenges facing distributed workforces is one that combines the strengths of formal and informal learning while focusing on participants’ work-based tasks. An operationalisation of this model in the context of the ongoing professional development of the engineers, geologists, and other technical specialists in a multinational oil company (Shell EP) is described. Important for the quality control and continual improvement of the implementation of the model is a set of criteria for the design and evaluation of courses reflecting its work-based learning approach. Merrill's First Principles of Instruction (2002) form a starting point for such a model, but need to be expanded to reflect the particular needs of the Shell EP context. This article presents the expansion of Merrill's First Principles as the Merrill+design and evaluation criteria for courses with work-based activities for technical professionals and demonstrates how the criteria can be applied through a selection of some results of evaluations of more than 60 of the Shell EP courses using a course-scan methodology based on the Merrill+ criteria. Implications of use of the Merrill+ criteria for design and evaluation are discussed.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2005 Blackwell
Research Group:	Technological Support for Strategy, Learning and Change (TSLC)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/53205
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2005.00507.x
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