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Bloom, Gary; Wilson, Jackie Owens – Corwin, 2023
How can we construct professional development and supervision models that best serve the needs of adult learners? Building on the groundbreaking model outlined in the bestselling first edition of "Blended Coaching," authors Bloom and Wilson outline a powerful set of strategies that can serve as a foundation for effective supervision.…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Coaching (Performance), Professional Development, Supervision
Rubenson, Kjell, Ed. – Academic Press, 2011
As individuals and societies try to respond to fundamental economic and social transformation, the field of adult learning and education is rapidly getting increased attention and new topics for research on adult learning have emerged. This collection of articles from the International Encyclopedia of Education 3e offers practitioners and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Social Change, Program Development, Outcomes of Education
Brookfield, Stephen D.; Holst, John D. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2010
This book offers new readings of the theory, politics, policy, and practice of radical adult education and learning where people's lives are understood as complex and interrelated matters. Brookfield and Holst's poetics and deeply human prose sound rebellious; the authors confront some of the main radical trends in the field of adult education…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Critical Theory, Transformative Learning, Adult Education
Zou, Bin; Xing, Minjie; Wang, Yuping; Sun, Mingyu; Xiang, Catherine H. – IGI Global, 2013
Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Technological Advances highlights new research and an original framework that brings together foreign language teaching, experiments and testing practices that utilize the most recent and widely used e-learning resources. This comprehensive collection of research will offer linguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Web 2.0 Technologies
Marks, Beth; Sisirak, Jasmina; Heller, Tamar – Brookes Publishing Company, 2010
Adults with developmental disabilities are at significant risk for health problems. Effective health promotion can improve outcomes--and that's why adult day and residential agencies, schools, and other organizations need this invaluable program development guide. An urgent call to action and a start-to-finish framework for health promotion, this…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Physical Disabilities, Quality of Life
Goody, Allan E.; Kozoll, Charles E. – 1995
This book describes and analyzes program planning and development in the field of continuing education. The book contains seven chapters. Building on the phases of program development and the role of the program planner in chapter 1, the book draws attention in chapter 2 to some of the many challenges that are common when programs are planned. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Continuing Education, Educational Planning
Queeney, Donna S. – 1995
This book offers step-by-step guidance on using needs assessment to design high-quality programs in continuing education. The book begins with a definition and description of needs assessment as part of the process of developing a continuing education program. The first of the book's 10 chapters describes the role of needs assessment in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Continuing Education
Beatty, Paulette T.; Wolf, Mary Alice – 1996
Written for both professionals and lay persons working with the development and education of older adults, this book addresses issues of aging, expectations for aged persons, and the means to respond in practical and educationally sound ways to the changing needs of older adults. The book is organized in four parts. Part I introduces the world of…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Students, Aging (Individuals)
Inglis, Scott – 1994
This book is aimed at managers, chief executives, personnel directors, and all those who want to know what action learning can do for their organizations. Part 1 (Chapters 1-3) provides a general introduction to action learning. It describes the underlying theory and principles of action learning and the benefits that organizations can expect to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Experiential Learning, Learning, Management Development
Rietz, Helen L.; Manning, Marilyn – 1994
This book leads the reader through a step-by-step process for creating and presenting a workshop. At each step, the book notes the important decisions workshop planners need to make, guides them in making those decisions, suggests resources that may help, provides real-world examples, and includes forms, checklists, and worksheets to make the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Education, On the Job Training, Planning
Korim, Andrew S., Ed.; Waugaman, Dorothy O., Ed. – 1974
The American Association of Community and Junior Colleges organized a consortium of five observation and demonstration colleges to implement pilot programs aimed at older adults. Site selection was made on the bases of geographic dispersion, community variation, economic characteristics, and the proportion of older adults in the population. This…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Services, Consortia
Lamoureux, Marvin E. – 1975
In adult education, program planning and administrative management are important areas within which economic analysis may contribute to effective and efficient decision making. The adult education administrator is faced with a dual economic task: (1) to prove beforehand that his programs will pay for the operating budget he is demanding; and (2)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Economics
Shoemaker, Cynthia C. Jones – 1998
This book provides a framework for leadership in the combined fields of higher education, management, and marketing. It is divided into three sections. Section 1, "Challenges and Changes in Continuing Education," has two chapters identifying some of the current challenges. Section 2, "Leadership for the 21st Century in Continuing Education," has…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Programs, Continuing Education, Distance Education
Cervero, Ronald M. – 1988
This book focuses on helping individuals to be effective educators and on helping improve the practice of continuing professional education. It identifies the elements of effective practice for continuing professional educators. The most common and important types of situations that continuing professional educators face, the range of choices open…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Educational Development, Faculty Development
Caffarella, Rosemary S. – 2002
This how-to guide and resource book is designed to help in planning educational and training programs for adults in settings from the corporate sector to educational organizations. Chapters 1-3 lay the groundwork for the rest of the guide by introducing the 12-component Interactive Model of Program Planning. Chapter 1 describes adult programs and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Job Training, Models
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