Sustainability of learning at work: experiences of police, hospital, and ICT personnel

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Table 1. Aspects significant for the sustainability of learning among ICT, hospital, and police employees.

Context	Continuity	Transferability	Well-being	Temporality
All three contexts
	Depth of learning	Transfer of what has been learned from education to practice	Ambivalent nature of learning as inspiring and a burden (learning overload)	Proactive learning
	Applicability of learning	Transfer of learning between individuals and the community	Issues that were not directly related to one’s core tasks caused stress.	The continuum of learning and development
	Utilising life experience		Positive meaning of community (colleagues and supervisors)	Future orientation of learning
Context-specific aspects
Hospital	Continuous practical applications in work situations	Learning at work embedded in formal education	Shared experience of learning as inspiring and overloading	Experience
				Apprenticeship structure
				Competence-based anticipation
Police	Utilising life experience in learning interactional and cultural skills	Widely available and utilised competence in the community	Possibility of succeeding and developing in one’s job	Being prepared, anticipation
		Experience from other spheres of life	Using one’s competence in the community through meaningful tasks
ICT	Inevitable waste of learning	Technological/ curious thinking and perseverance with learning	Motivating nature of work (and learning)	Learning for future technological developments
	Continuous technology-oriented learning situations	Transfer of learning from other spheres of life (leisure and family)	Learning load related to the nature of the field	Learning in different phases of projects and one’s career
		Underutilisation of lessons learned in education due to rapid technological developments	Stress from competence sharing during ongoing project	Creating solid base for learning at beginning of one’s career
				Proactive and sustainable attitude to respond to future challenges