#Læringslivet (Learning life) as Symbiotic Learning System of Employee-driven Innovation in Municipal Care Work

The paper edition of the Handbook for Employee-driven Innovation in Care Work (Amble, Amundsen, Johansen, Rismark, Stiklestad & Waaler, 2018) was launched on 13 December. The handbook is distributed to partners, participating municipalities and all employees who were students in # Learning Life in December 2018. Residual copies will be used in teaching and published free of charge upon request. The Master module; Specialization in organizational learning 15 ECTS, developed in # Learning life has been reworked, shortened to a 10ECTS module with the same name. The module is part of OsloMet and The Department of Vocational Teacher Education (YLU) continuing education assignments; Teacher specialist in Health and Social work (HO) subjects. The client is the Norwegian Directorate of Education. The first implementation of the module takes place in February 2019. The handbook and the scientific article are incorporated in the syllabus. In connection with the two study programs, a special reading workshop was developed as part of the PhD candidate's work. A method for reading curriculum literature. Central to this method is theory of collaborative learning (Klev & Levin, 2009). That is, reading selected texts, parts of the syllabus, together, discussing and presenting to each other. The analogue reading workshop has been the starting point for an application to the Directorate for Internationalization and Quality Development in Higher Education (DiKu). The application is approved. The project is two-year-long and aims to digitize the reading workshop. Project owner is NTNU, at the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning (IPLL) while participant in # Learning Life, professor Marit Rismark is one of two project managers, the other is professor Astrid Sølvberg. OsloMet, YLU at PhD candidate Else Johansen and professor Nina Amble are partners and project participants. The project is called #studentaktiv (student active) - Students as designers, producers and users of each other's digital learning resources. The project had two accepted papers at the European Conference on Educational Research, ECER 2018, Bozen / Bolzano, Italy September 2018. Together, the project has had 9 paper presentations during the project period. The first scientific publication took place on December 2, 2018 in the open access journal; Research and Change https://forskningogforandring.dk/ . Link directly to article: https://forskningogforandring.dk/index.php/fof/article/view/1216 . Participants in Expert panel, post doctor, two PhD candidates and the project participants will submit articles to an anthology, which will be published in 2019. The project #Learning life has contract with Gyldendal academic, by editor, economics and administration: Knut André Karlstad. In 2018, the various researchers in the project carried out extensive dissemination activities related to employee-driven innovation as a solution-oriented work method that can help to meet challenges in the future health and care work. This can be challenges related to systems for better working hours, recruitment, better education and changes related to Work 4.0 (Industry 4.0). For example, in brief can be mentioned Arendalsuka, lecture for the IA Council's annual conference in Trøndelag, teaching in the KS learning network "Nytt blikk (a new glimpse)" and a conference in The Vocational workers year, in Oppland. The full list of results are registered in Cristin (https://www.cristin.no )

1) I arbeidslivet: *Organisasjonsnivå: De fire arbeidsplassene fortsetter med arbeidsformen Medarbeiderdrevet innovasjon (MDI). Det er registrert nye MDI på tre av arbeidsplassene. *Arbeidsmiljø og nærvær ble styrket. Dette er bidrag til bra arbeid (Amble 2017) i denne sektoren. *Håndboken på papir/digital, vil kunne være utgangspunkt for spredning av arbeidsformen MDI. 2) I studiene: *Erfaringer, i form av vitenskapelig tekst/håndbok er innarbeidet som modul 10 ECTS i Lærerspesialist i Helse og oppvekstfag (HO); en ett-årig EVU på master-nivå for yrkesfaglærere i HO-fag, samt to nye emneplaner, en på 15 ECTS, Bc- nivå og en på 15 ECTS, master-nivå. 3) Vitenskapelige: *Teoriutvikling, MDI, særlig betydningen av selv-organisering av innovasjonsprosessene. *FOU videreføring, digitalisering av leseverkstedet: #studentaktiv. *Forskningsbasert kunnskap om MDI i omsorgsarbeid. Arbeidsformen er mulig og ønskelig, men tid og god org. ser ut til å være kritiske forutsetninger.

#Læringslivet (Theme on Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO)?s Annual Meeting 2014) is a phrase that currently is being used to direct public attention towards the essence of the future's knowledge society: The need for new knowledge to intertwine learning in school and work in a lifelong perspective (EU 2000). The purpose of the project is - in an organized interactive research process between researchers and employees from 3-4 selected workplaces in municipal care - to develop and test a system for mutually supportive learning of EDI. What prevents what promotes such a SLS? What methods and forms of cooperation are suitable in such EDI? And which specific attention and competence is required in this type of work? The project has an action research design in the segment of interactive research and has three phases. 1. The anchoring phase: Development of theoretical grounds and research design for interactive phase. 2. The interactive phase: Researcher and groups of employees will involve in operation of 3-4 selected organizational development projects. 3. The implementation phase: Synthesize and strengthen the experience of SLS, implementation of new experiential based knowledge of SLS as EDI in curriculums at HIOA. International Expert Panel (IEP): In milestones IEP will discuss and validate results/findings. The panel has members from UK (2), N (3) & DK (1) and will meet five times. Written deliverables: Document 3-4 organization development processes and publish three articles in scientific journals focusing the three research questions: I. What prevents and promotes a SLS? II. What methods and forms of cooperation are suitable in EDI? III. Which specific attention is required in municipal care e.g. focusing the rota system as innovation? It will be developed a nationally relevant Handbook in Employee-driven Innovation in care work and the project will culminate in an International conference for field and academia; about STS as EDI in care work.