Biography
Jaanika Hirv-Biene is a Junior Researcher and a PhD student at Tallinn University, Estonia. She has received an MSc degree in Educational Technology from Tallinn University and MA degree in Translation from University of Tartu. In her PhD research, she investigates the role that self-directed learning at the workplace plays in transfer of learning from education and training to workplace.
PhD description
The PhD research explores the ways how learning technologies can be used to support self-directed learning at the workplace and thereby facilitate transfer of learning across three major contexts of learning – continuing education, workplace (in-house training), and external training (provided by a training company). Design-based research cycles would be run in each of the settings to identify key self-directed learning processes from the viewpoint of supporting transfer, and particular opportunities and potential learning technologies for doing this.