From the article: "The goal of higher professional education is to enable students to develop into
reflective practitioners, having both a firm theoretical knowledge base as well as
appropriate, professional attitudes and skills. Learning at the workplace is crucial
in professional education, because it allows students to learn to act competently in
complex contexts and unpredictable situations. Reflection on learning during an
internship is hard to interweave with the working process, which may easily result
in students having little control over their own learning process while at work. In
this study, we aim to discover in what way we can effectively use technology to
enhance workplace learning, by synthesizing design propositions for Technology-
Enhanced Workplace Learning (TEWL). We conducted design-based research
which is cyclic in nature. Based on preliminary research, we constructed initial
design propositions and developed a web-based app (software program for mobile
devices) providing interventions based on these propositions. In a pilot study,
students from different educational domains used this app to support their workplace
learning. We evaluated the initial design propositions by carrying out both a
theoretical and a practical evaluation. With the insights obtained from these
evaluations, we developed a next version of the design propositions and improved
the app accordingly. The research result is a set of design propositions for TEWL.
For daily practice, the developed web-based app is available for re-use and further
research and development."
