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Burchert, Joanna; Hoeve, Aimée; Kämäräinen, Pekka – Online Submission, 2014
This article focuses on two examples of interactive research (IR) in vocational education and training. IR is a process which brings together practitioners and researchers with the aim to implement an innovation. This innovation in the first project meant to create a hybrid learning environment; in the second it supported introducing digital media…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Research, Educational Innovation
Bowskill, Nicholas – Online Submission, 2010
This paper introduces the practice and theoretical framework for a new generative learning environment that creates shareable electronic artefacts from reflective dialogue across a whole-group. These artefacts are quantitative and qualitative representations of student experience. By grouping these student-generated products new measures of…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Student Experience, Voting, Intention
Assaf, Mohammad Ahmad – Online Submission, 2011
This paper starts with the idea that knowledge has become one of the most important factors to determine human development and explore the different requirements that need to be met by the government and the citizens of the UAE to succeed in building a knowledge society (KS). An explanation and examination of the five pillars of establishing a KS…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Freedom, Access to Education, Educational Quality
Sedere, Upali M. – Online Submission, 2010
Sri Lanka is widening its scope for vocational education sub-sector. The emerging global trends and the aspirations of the emerging Sri Lanka after defeating terrorism demands the preparation of the graduating youth at different stages of the education system for employment. Vocational education faces many challenges. Though there are…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Demands
Randolph, Justus J. – Online Submission, 2008
Over the past thirty years, there has been much dialogue, and debate, about the conduct of educational technology research and development. In this brief volume, the author helps clarify that dialogue by theoretically and empirically charting the research methods used in the field and provides much practical information on how to conduct…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Research, Research and Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
Wang, Yu-Lin; Ellinger, Andrea D. – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework and research hypotheses based upon a thorough review of the conceptual and limited published empirical research in the organizational learning and innovation performance literatures. Hypotheses indicate the relationships between organizational learning, its antecedent, perception of…
Descriptors: Innovation, Labor Force Development, Hypothesis Testing, Literature Reviews
Carter, Shani D. – Online Submission, 2007
The article recounts in detail the process used to include all department faculty members in the design of outcomes assessment measures for the management major, basing these on broad learning outcomes which the department had previously identified. While other literature has described the outcomes assessment design process in broad terms, the…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Business Administration Education, Public Colleges, College Programs
Short, Darren; Keefer, Jeffrey M.; Stone, Sophia J. – Online Submission, 2006
There is a recognized gap between HRD practice and HRD research. In recent years, actions have been taken to understand and close the gap, and more are planned. Those efforts would benefit from a greater understanding of how the gap is experienced and addressed in other professions. This paper summarizes a literature review of material from other…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Barclay, Hanna; Batatia, Hudj; Bauters, Merja; Ben Ami, Zvi; Drachman, Raul; Flouris, Giorgos; Jadin, Tanja; Jalonen, Satu; Karlgren, Klas; Karpati, Andrea; Kotzinos, Dimitris; Lakkala, Minna; Lallimo, Jiri; Moen, Anne; Nygard, Kathrine; Paavola, Sami; Padiglia, Sheila; Scapolla, Marina; Sins, Patrick; Vasileva, Tania – Online Submission, 2008
In the first 24 months of the project, KP-Lab members were highly dedicated to dissemination and were engaged in various dissemination activities that contributed to the prime objective of the KP-Lab dissemination efforts which is "to make the project widely known to a variety of prospective users and, at a later stage, to promote the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Information Dissemination
Online Submission, 2005
In 2005, the Minister of Alberta Advanced Education initiated a comprehensive exercise to establish a new direction for Alberta's advanced education system. Through the A Learning Alberta review, a new vision and policy outcomes for the advanced education system will be articulated. The process provides an opportunity for government, stakeholders,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Feedback
Hamilton, Clovia – Online Submission, 2003
"[I]n difficult economic times, political stakeholders in the technology transfer process usually view success in economic impact terms, and often from short-term and parochial perspectives--how many jobs in my state next year?" Although universities increasingly pressure their technology transfer specialists to become stewards of their…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Economic Development, Economic Impact, Strategic Planning
Toiviainen, Hanna; Hoynalanmaa, Mikko; Lallimo, Jiri; Moen, Anne; Smordal, Ole; Morch, Anders; Toikka, Seppo – Online Submission, 2006
This deliverable has been produced in the context of the Knowledge-Practice Laboratory (KP-Lab) project, which is aimed at facilitating innovative practices of working with knowledge in higher education, teacher training, and professional networks. This deliverable is a synopsis of the first experiences encountered during the first 6 months of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Computer Mediated Communication, Research Methodology