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Kaela M. Martin; A. Hope Elmer; Lauren P. deVera; Joselyn Busato; Parker Landon; Davide Guzzetti; Elif E. Miskioglu – Advances in Engineering Education, 2024
Online courses have become increasingly popular in education and professional development because of their user-friendliness, accessibility, and ability to provide specialized training beyond formal education for workforce preparation. We demonstrate the efficacy of using a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to teach specialized engineering…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Engineering Education, Career Readiness, Aerospace Education
Bass, Judy – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2012
This article features Scott D. Tingle, a former career and technical education (CTE) student who always aimed high. November 4, 2011 marked the official culmination of a cherished, virtually lifelong dream of his--becoming an astronaut. It was a goal he had in mind even when he was a high school student in the 1980s at Blue Hills Regional…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Astronomy, Aerospace Education, Space Exploration
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Azevedo, Flavio S. – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
Based on a three-year-long ethnography of the hobby of model rocketry, I present a practice-centered theory of interest relationships--that is, the pattern of long-term, self-motivated engagement in open-ended practices that has been theorized under the concept of "individual interests". In contrast to extant theories of individual interests, in…
Descriptors: Interests, Ethnography, Vocational Interests, Barriers
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Hay, Stephen; Kapitzke, Cushla – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2009
Industry school partnerships have emerged recently in Australia as a policy solution for the management of problems associated with integration into the global economy. This paper draws on governmentality theory to examine a transnational partnership, the Gateways to the Aerospace Industry Project, which has been mobilised to manage transition…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Global Approach, Governance, Foreign Countries