Interns are an echo of what was formerly called apprenticeship, which goes way back to the “guilds” in medieval europe, where you learned very valuable skills OTJ. Cloud tools make OTJ learning feasible in many many circumstances, where a “student” could learn doing real work backed up by powerful AR tools worn on the person, and connected to real time databases presenting just the right “how to” information just in time.
That would be an example of “connectivism”…AFAIK.
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