Practical Activities to Improve Transfer of Learning in the Nuclear-Related Continuing Professional Educations for Developing Countries in Korea

Much in-class education and training for developing countries have focused on how a learner absorbs knowledge and skills efficiently or effectively in the class,but are less interested in how the learners should transfer the knowledge and skills into their jobs in their workplace.In principle,in-class education and training have a difficulty with applying the learned knowledge and skills to learners’jobs in the workplace in comparison with any other practical-basis training.To overcome this difficulty,many educational stakeholders in the nuclear field have concentrated on how learners can transfer the knowledge and skills absorbed in the class into their jobs in their workplace.The action learning activity for learners can be one of the solutions to apply the knowledge and skills to their job in the workplace.The purpose of this study is to clarify how the transfer of learning has been implemented in the nuclear-related continuing professional educations and training for developing countries in Korea.To accomplish this purpose,this study is implemented as follows.The first is to define the concept of the“transfer of learning”clearly.The second is to clarify the core elements of the transfer of learning.Along with the clarification,the third is to show how the transfer of learning has been implemented in the continuing professional nuclear-related education and training for developing countries in Korea.The fourth is to present core problems in such education and training.As the fifth,this study suggests alternatives to overcome the core problems in the nuclear-related continuing professional education and training.