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POE 2003 Conference

Reports from the Panel Sessions

Knowledge Brokers from the Northeastern community attended the panel sessions and summarized key points and distilling critical themes. The Knowledge Brokers took notes during the sessions and then compiled written reports.

Please follow the links at right to view their reports.

The reports contain sections on major points raised by each speaker, principle themes from the general discussion, questions that emerged during the sessions, and/ or commentary regarding the conference's common questions:

• How is the work environment distinctive in its potential as a learning venue?
• What is it about work that induces learning in the first place?
• What kind of learning is generated by practice?
• What processes and methods are necessary to distill learning from work?
• What are the roles of theory and reflection in learning from work?
• Are there thresholds of experience that are required to make work learningful? Is simulated experience sufficient? What makes for effective practice?
• What linkages exist between the classroom (academic) and work environments? How can each reinforce the other?