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Nørgaard, Bente – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
The development of employees' skills and competences has become a key driver of economic growth in the developed world. It is widely recognised that enhancing people's skills and competences will be a major cause of future competitive advantage. Consequently, companies need to be able to identify precise areas where they have, or can build,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Engineering Education, Corporations, Models
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Quinn, Brenna L.; Smolinski, Megan – Journal of School Nursing, 2018
School nurses are afforded minimal resources related to assessing pain in students with intellectual disability (ID) and have called for continuing education. The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of an education program regarding best practices for assessing pain in students with ID. Educational sessions were presented to 248…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Pain, Intellectual Disability, Professional Continuing Education
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Rowland, Paula; McMillan, Sarah; Martimianakis, Maria Athina; Hodges, Brian D. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2018
Health services organisations are increasingly incorporating patient engagement strategies as a form of quality improvement. Such strategies take form in programmes where organisations partner with patients in order to learn from their experiences and thereby change how services are designed, delivered, and implemented. In this study, we examined…
Descriptors: Patients, Hospitals, Health Services, Credibility
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Morales, Sara; Sainz, Terri – Learning Professional, 2017
Imagine teachers, administrators, and university mathematicians and staff learning together in a lab setting where students are excited about attending a week-long summer math event because they are at the forefront of the experience. Piloted in three New Mexico classrooms during summer 2014, MathLab expanded into 17 lab settings over six…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics Education, Pilot Projects, Summer Programs
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Melchiorre, Marilyn Martin; Johnson, Scott A. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2017
Although traditional student enrollment is declining, the nontraditional segment of students is growing. This enrollment pattern will require recruitment strategies that speak directly to the adult learners. There is robust adoption of social media use by individuals and by organizations for marketing purposes. Social media marketing includes…
Descriptors: Social Media, Outreach Programs, Professional Continuing Education, Higher Education
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Lapidos, Adrienne; Ruffolo, Mary – Journal of Social Work Education, 2017
In preparing the workforce for integrated care, continuing professional education serves a critical role. Within a rapidly changing health care landscape, matriculated students now benefit from pedagogical innovations supporting integrated care, particularly interprofessional education, and working professionals must not be excluded from this…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Professional Continuing Education, Social Work, Counselor Training