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Emerging Technologies for Workplace Learning

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This chapter outlines the emerging technologies for workplace learning and how they are used to support workplace learning in a variety of ways with respect to learning content management systems, social media and social interaction, mobile and ubiquitous learning facilities, computer simulations and immersive virtual reality, educational data mining and learning analytics, computer-based learning assistance, and cognitive processing and high-order thinking facilities.

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Wang, M. (2018). Emerging Technologies for Workplace Learning. In: E-Learning in the Workplace. Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64532-2_3

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