*4.3. Learning*

The majority of the ONSO and the OFFSO respondents replied that they learnt new things to a certain degree during the exercises (ONSOs M = 3.66, SD = 1.28; OFFSOs M = 4.16, SD = 1.16). Nearly half of the ONSOs (45.7%, M = 3.26, SD = 1.34) and more than half of the OFFSOs (66.6%, M = 3.84, SD = 1.14) considered themselves to have learnt new things about the organisations involved in the exercise. Less than a quarter of the ONSOs (21.4%, M = 2.72, SD = 1.03) and under half of the OFFSOs (42.5%, M = 3.22, SD = 1.30) learnt something about the concepts and acronyms used by the organisations involved as well as their communication patterns (ONSOs 22.4%, M = 2.74, SD = 1.05; OFFSOs 60.3%, M = 3.72, SD = 1.19). Quite a few of the ONSOs (17%, M = 2.79, SD = 0.88) and half of the OFFSOs (47.9%, M = 3.72, SD = 1.19) considered themselves to have learnt about prioritising activities. The mean for all items within the learning dimension was 3.03 (SD = 0.97) for the ONSOs and 3.67 (SD = 0.93) for the OFFSOs (Figure 1).
