1 Introduction
Knowledge workers are workers whose critical work resource within their essential
value creating tasks is knowledge [2]. In order to enhance the productivity of knowledge
workers, their competency enhancement and learning has to take place directly
at their workplaces. This work has been carried out as part of the APOSDLE project.
APOSDLE1 is a 48 months research and development (R&D) integrated project partially
supported by the European Community under the Information Society Technologies
(IST) priority of the 6th framework programme for R&D. Work-integrated
learning aims at fostering the learning transfer (i.e. the application of what has been
learnt to current job activities [4]). Work-integrated learning does not merely rely on
pre-defined development plans and on learning resources, which are specifically
designed and produced for dedicated learning situations.
Work-integrated learning instead mainly considers knowledge workers’ actual tasks,
personal competency disposition and work domain as relevant contextual information