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Stephen Billett; Ashlea Troth; Hongmin Yan – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Elaborating the relations amongst workers' learning, innovations and well-being is essential for achieving two important and dual goals in contemporary work life. The first is individuals' ongoing learning that underpins their employability and can respond to new challenges and emerging occupational and workplace requirements. The second comprises…
Descriptors: Labor Education, Well Being, Innovation, Adult Learning
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Leow, Anthony; Chua, Shuyi; Billett, Stephen; Le, Anh Hai – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: Employers often claim that the lack of employee competence is a limitation in their enterprises' success and viability. Consequently, employers are important stakeholders in considerations for workforce continuing education and training (CET) policies and practices. Hence, the authors undertook an exploratory investigation to understand…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Professional Continuing Education, Professional Development, Skill Development
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Chen, Zan; Chia, Arthur; Bi, Xiaofang – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
In line with Singapore's nationwide digital journey, the Training and Adult Education (TAE) sector of Singapore has launched the Innovation Learning 2020 initiative to catalyse the adoption of technology in the TAE sector. This paper presents findings from three projects we have conducted on innovative learning and discusses how learning and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Curriculum Design
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Xiaofang, Bi – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: Sense-making, understood as meaning making or giving meaning to experience, is an integral part of everyday life, work and learning, and is a process critical in enabling people to recognise how and when to respond to situations appropriately so that they can resolve problems effectively. Earlier studies on sense-making in educational or…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Blended Learning, Comparative Analysis, Outcomes of Education
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Rushbrook, Peter; Karmel, Annie; Bound, Helen – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
Over recent years Singapore has developed a strong adult and vocational education system based on those of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Its Continuing Education and Training (CET) sector makes use of competency-based training in the form of Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQs) which are delivered in mainly small private providers by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Job Skills
Muller, Normann; Behringer, Friederike – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This paper provides an overview of the available information concerning selected policy instruments intended to promote employer-provided training, including the stated rationale and objectives, the target groups and operational design as well as a at a summary of the evaluative evidence regarding their operation. The analysis focuses on policy…
Descriptors: Incentives, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Grants