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Kuyken, Kerstin; Ebrahimi, Mehran; Saives, Anne-Laure – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to develop a better understanding of intergenerational knowledge transfer (IKT) practices by adopting a context-related and comparative perspective. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study design involving 83 interviews and non-participative observation in German and Quebec organizations has been chosen.…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Cross Cultural Studies, Case Studies, Interviews
BC Student Outcomes, 2019
Student feedback is essential to maintain quality and relevance in the education system. Every year, British Columbia (BC) Student Outcomes collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs. In 2019, 92 percent of the former post-secondary students surveyed were satisfied or very satisfied with the education or training they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Student Surveys, Postsecondary Education
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Tanyaovalaksna, Sumeth; Li, Xiaobin – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Scholars suggest that there is a need for more research, particularly quantitative designs, that aim to examine the relationship between individual learning, team learning, and organizational learning. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a relationship between perceived individual learning, team learning, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Instruction, Teamwork, Hospitals
BC Student Outcomes, 2018
Student feedback is essential to ensure continued quality and relevance in the education system. Through surveying former students, British Columbia (BC) Student Outcomes provides the information needed to help shape post-secondary education in British Columbia. In 2018, 92 percent of the former post-secondary students surveyed were satisfied or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Student Surveys, Postsecondary Education
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Milley, Peter – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2016
The last 3 decades have witnessed the rise of reforms aimed at conjoining Canadian universities to the economic system. Critics have pointed out how reforms have emphasized economic utility in universities to the detriment of their sociocultural mission, producing negative effects. One curricular innovation that has spread in tandem with reforms…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Higher Education, Case Studies, Educational Change
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Thompson, Terrie Lynn – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
Workers are faced with wider networks of knowledge generation amplified by the scale, diffusion, and critical mass of digital artefacts and web technologies globally. In this study of mobilities of work-learning practices, I draw on sociomaterial theorizing to explore how the work and everyday learning practices of self-employed workers or…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Workplace Learning, Workplace Literacy, Comparative Education
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Schultz, Christie – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2014
This article explores the ways in which learning itself is a form of organizational change and, as such, supports organizational readiness for change. The study considers a continuing education unit within a major Canadian university that managed to transform its decentralized and independent student records and administration system (student…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Sustainability, Continuing Education, Higher Education
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Drysdale, Maureen T. B.; Frost, Natalie; McBeath, Margaret L. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
This project examined the role of cooperative education (co-op) in changing majors and career certainty in Canadian university students. Career certainty scores were collected using an online questionnaire from students in both cooperative education and non-cooperative education. The frequency with which students changed their major and their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Workplace Learning, Online Surveys
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Mukan, Nataliya; Barabash, Olena; Busko, Maria – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
In the article the problem of adult immigrants' learning in Canada has been studied. The main objectives of the article are defined as: analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature which highlights different aspects of the research problem; analysis of the adult immigrants' learning system in Canada; and the perspectives for creative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Immigrants
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Kirova, Anna; Massing, Christine; Prochner, Larry; Cleghorn, Ailie – Journal of Pedagogy, 2016
This study examines the use of PowerPoint as a teaching tool in a workplace- embedded program aimed at bridging immigrant/refugee early childhood educators into post-secondary studies, and how, in the process, it shapes students' "habits of mind" (Turkle, 2004). The premise of the study is that it is not only the bodies of knowledge…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Visual Aids
BC Student Outcomes, 2014
The Apprenticeship Student Outcomes (APPSO) Survey, which targets former apprenticeship students who have completed the final level of their technical training, is one of three annual surveys that make up BC Student Outcomes. In British Columbia, it is projected that there will be nearly one million job openings by 2022, with 43 percent requiring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Student Characteristics, Student Experience
BC Student Outcomes, 2017
Student feedback is essential to maintaining quality and relevance in the education system. Through surveying former students, BC Student Outcomes provides the information needed to help shape post-secondary education in British Columbia. Every year, BC Student Outcomes collects feedback from former students who took post-secondary programs,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, College Students, Academic Degrees
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Percival, Jennifer C.; Cozzarin, Brian P.; Formaneck, Steven D. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2013
One of the central problems in managing technological change and maintaining a competitive advantage in business is improving the skills of the workforce through investment in human capital and a variety of training practices. This paper explores the evidence on the impact of training investment on productivity in 14 Canadian industries from 1999…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries
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Jiang, Yuheng Helen; Lee, Sally Wai Yin; Golab, Lukasz – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
This paper reports on the analysis of three years research of undergraduate cooperative work term postings and employer and employee evaluations. The objective of the analysis was to determine the factors affecting student and employer success and satisfaction with the work-integrated learning experience. It was found that students performed…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Satisfaction, Employer Attitudes
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Cormier-MacBurnie, Paulette; Doyle, Wendy; Mombourquette, Peter; Young, Jeffrey D. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the formal and informal workplace learning of professional chefs. In particular, it considers chefs' learning strategies and outcomes as well as the barriers to and facilitators of their workplace learning. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology is based on in-depth, face-to-face, semi-structured…
Descriptors: Hospitality Occupations, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, Informal Education
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