Implementing virtual support for workplace learning Available to Purchase

Reviews the prospects and potential for meeting industry‐specific learning and development needs with particular reference to a “University for Industry” initiative for hospitality and tourism. Its design and implementation draw on a global industry forum and its infrastructure provides: an access point for workplace learning programmes; a resource for addressing project and personal updating needs; a reference point for training and internal corporate communications and a means of interacting with “communities of interest” (such as industry‐education linkages).