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Learning from experience is concerned with how individuals interpret and make sense of their experiences in order to increase their understanding, knowledge and skills.

In the workplace learning from experience tends to referred to as Continuing Professional Development (CPD). The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) defines CPD as ‘a combination of approaches, ideas and techniques that will help you manage your own learning and growth. The focus of CPD is firmly on results – the benefits that professional development can bring you in the real world’ (www.cipd.co.uk/cpd/aboutcpd/whatiscpd.htm). 

The Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA) is a national organisation which aims to ‘promote the awareness of recording achievement and action planning processes as an important element in improving learning and progression throughout the world of education, training and employment’.

The Learning from Experience Trust provides further information on learning from experience.

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