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This chapter revisits a theory of informal and incidental learning developed in 1990 by Victoria Marsick and Karen Watkins in light of recent developments in theory and a reassessment of the model based on both research and experience. An extended example of paramedic learning developed by Barbara Lovin is used to illustrate the model, challenges in the original model, and changes in our thinking...