ERIC Number: ED582062
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Sep-27
Pages: 82
Abstractor: ERIC
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Exploring the Role and Adoption of Technology-Based Training and Employment Services. Final Report
Gan, Katherine N.; Schneider, Glen; Harvill, Eleanor L.; Brooke, Nicole
Abt Associates
The dramatic evolution of computer and communications technology, coupled with an ever-increasing emphasis on cost-effectiveness, underscores the potential of technology-based learning (TBL), or elearning, in the public workforce investment system. The U.S. Department of Labor (the Department), Employment and Training Administration (ETA) launched a national initiative in 2008 to systematically explore TBL's role and its adoption within the workforce system. With funding from the Department, Abt Associates conducted a study during 2012-2013 to collect descriptive information about the use of TBL at the state and local levels of the workforce system. Data about state policies and support for TBL were collected in an online survey of state workforce agency (SWA) administrators (82 percent response rate), and data about local implementation of TBL were collected in an online survey of the Executive Directors of Local Workforce Investment Boards (LWIBs; 69 percent response rate). This report presents the findings from those surveys. Specifically, it provides a description of SWAs' efforts to promote and support TBL, as well as actual adoption and use of TBL at the local level in providing Workforce Investment Act (WIA) services. These include WIA Title I core, intensive, and training services and WIA Title II educational services. The report also identifies factors that appear to facilitate or impede state supports for TBL and local use of TBL.
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, State Policy, Online Surveys, Program Implementation, Administrator Attitudes, Labor Force Development, Labor Legislation, Federal Legislation, Teaching Methods, Geographic Location, State Programs, Context Effect, Training, Delivery Systems, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: US Department of Labor
Authoring Institution: Abt Associates, Inc.; Employment and Training Administration (DOL)
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Workforce Investment Act 1998
Grant or Contract Numbers: GS10F0086K; BPADOLQ111A21697; DOLU111A21719
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