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Direct linkKidd, Terry T., Ed. – Information Science Reference, 2010
The expanding field of adult learning encompasses the study and practice of utilizing sound instructional design principals, technology, and learning theory as a means to solve educational challenges and human performance issues relating to adults, often occurring online. This book disseminates current issues and trends emerging in the field of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Nontraditional Students, Learning Theories, Instructional Design
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This document contains three papers on action learning. "Action Learning: Case Studies of Most Valued Learning and Application" (Suzanne D. Butterfield) reports on a qualitative study in which longitudinal data was collected from document analysis and first-line consulting managers who had participated in action learning. The study…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Belanger, Paul, Ed.; Valdivielso, Sofia, Ed. – 1997
This book contains nine papers in which data from the Adult Education Participation Survey (a part of the International Adult Literacy Survey) are used to identify and compare trends in organized learning in seven countries. The following papers are included: "Introduction: Who Participates in Organized Adult Learning?" (Paul Belanger,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Data Collection
Benn, Roseanne, Ed.; Fieldhouse, Roger, Ed. – 1998
This document contains six papers examining the theoretical and practical development of university adult continuing education (ACE) curricula in the late 1990s. The following are among the factors considered in "An Exploration of the Factors Affecting the Adult Continuing Education Curriculum" (Roseanne Benn): goals; cultural,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies
Smith, Andrew, Ed. – 1999
This document contains six papers exploring the training and learning of older people in Australia's vocational education and training (VET), and of technical and further education (TAFE) programs in the adult and community sectors. "Preface" (Andrew Smith) discusses the adequacy of training opportunities available to older Australians…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals)
2001
This document contains three papers on integrating university and corporate learning with work. "Workplace Application of HRD Concepts as Perceived by Non-Traditional Adult Students and Their Workplace Supervisors" (Kit Brooks, Dale E. Thompson, Elizabeth S. Lizarraga) reports on a study in which nontraditional students enrolled in an…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students, College Graduates
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on action learning that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "Searching for Meaning in Complex Action Learning Data: What Environments, Acts, and Words Reveal" (Verna J. Willis) analyzes complex action learning documents produced as course…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Case Studies
Boud, David, Ed. – 1998
This book contains nine papers on current issues and new agendas in workplace learning in Australia. The first paper, "A New Focus on Workplace Learning Research" (David Boud), examines the rise of interest in and conceptions of workplace learning. The next three papers focus on different conceptions of workplace learning: "Fusing…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Corporate Education, Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship
Clayton, Pamela M., Ed.; Fojcik, Vavrinec; Greco, Silvana; Hulkko, Johanna; Kelly, Eimer; Kostka, Miroslav; McGill, Paul; Machackova, D.; Maiello, Marco; Makela, Eija; Sinorova, Lenka; Troska, Robert; Ward, Mary – 1999
This document contains 7 papers that evolved from 44 case studies of access to vocational guidance for people at risk of social exclusion in 5 European countries. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Pamela Clayton); "Access to Vocational Guidance in Italy" (Silvana Greco, Marco Maiello); "Access to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, At Risk Persons, Career Education
Filho, Walter Leal, Ed. – 1997
This book, which was prepared in the context of the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, consists of a summary of the conference workshop "Environmental Education for Adults," 11 papers reviewing promising trends and developments in environmental learning in selected countries and contexts, and an introduction to the 25th…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Careers, Community Education
Long, Huey B.; And Others – 1996
This document contains the following papers examining current developments in self-directed learning: "Self-Directed Learning: Challenges and Opportunities" (Huey B. Long); "Examination of Self-Directed Learning Readiness and Selected Demographic Variables of Top Female Executives" (Lucy M. Guglielmino); "Enhancing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Continuing Education
2001
This document contains three papers on informal learning and human resource development. "Workplace Learning Reviewed: Confronting the Rhetoric with Empirical Research" (Rob F. Poell, Ferd J. Van der Krogt) discusses the considerable discrepancy between theory on workplace learning and actual workplace learning-related developments in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Adult Learning, Case Studies
Rampp, Lary C., Ed.; Guffey, J. Stephen, Ed. – 2000
This document, which is intended as a primer for adult continuing education, contains 11 chapters examining the philosophical foundations of adult and continuing education. The chapter titles and authors are as follows: "Progressivism and Adult Continuing Education" (Michael Day); "Progressivism: An Anthology" (Andrea Reeve);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Behaviorism, Comparative Analysis
2000
This document contains the six of the seven keynote speeches from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. "IVETA (International Vocational Education and Training Association) 2000 Conference 6-9 August 2000" (K.Y. Yeung) discusses the objectives and activities…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Administration
Intergenerational Programmes: Public Policy and Research Implications--An International Perspective.
Alan Hatton-Yeo; Toshio Ohsako – 2000
This document consists of 12 papers that, together, summarize the key issues underpinning future research and policy development related to intergenerational programs (IPs). "Introduction" (Alan Hatton-Yeo) discusses the project out of which the papers developed. "A General Assessment of IP Initiatives in the Countries…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies
