ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role that motivation plays in promoting Work-Based Learning (WBL), emphasizing organizational-individual relationships, appropriate support structures and the need for effective communication. WBL is important within a wider framework of LifeLong Learning (LLL), which enjoyed a high profile throughout 1996 – the European Year of Lifelong Learning (Department for Education and Employment, 1996). LLL impacts on traditional perspectives of UK education, emphasizing the importance of credit for recognition and accreditation of learning achieved in educational establishments, work, community or home, and necessitating a fundamental review of delivery and the role of educational technological support. A wide range of open and distance learning and WBL schemes have been established, promoting access to education and facilitating progression, eroding temporal and geographic constraints. LLL, and promotion of a knowledge economy, require a new vision of education extending beyond traditional boundaries to embrace a range of experiences within a coherent framework for post-16 education, acknowledging diversity of educational achievement and providing for individual learners.
