Symbolic meanings and e-learning in the workplace: The case of an intranet-based training tool
研究通过分析一个既用于培训又支持日常工作的内网工具，揭示了用户参与电子学习时个体、同事、组织和制度层面的动态互动，以及专业价值观和象征意义的影响。
This article contributes to the debate on work-based e-learning, by unpacking the notion of ‘the learning context’ in a case where the mediating tool for training also supports everyday work. Users’ engagement with the information and communication technology tool is shown to reflect dynamic interactions among the individual, peer group, organizational and institutional levels. Also influential are professionals’ values and identity work, alongside their interpretations of espoused and emerging symbolic meanings. Discussion draws on pedagogically informed studies of e-learning and the wider organizational learning literature. More centrally, this article highlights the instrumentality of symbolic interactionism for e-learning research and explores some of the framework’s conceptual resources as applied to organizational analysis and e-learning design.