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Direct linkGivens, Marlee, Ed.; Slutskaya, Sofia, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2022
Technical services departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, which means that finding a balance between meeting service demands and developing staff knowledge and skills is more challenging than ever. Today's next gen catalogs, changing cataloging rules, and diverse formats and delivery models demand that technical services…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Libraries, Library Services, Staff Development
Peer reviewedHarteis, Christian, Ed.; Gijbels, David, Ed.; Kyndt, Eva, Ed. – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2022
The volume comprises a variety of research approaches that seek to explore and understand employees' learning and development through and for work. Working life reveals challenges through technological, economic and societal development that can only rudimentarily be addressed by formal education and training. Workplace learning becomes more and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Employees, Professional Identity, Change
Hamidullah, Madinah F., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Public affairs and nonprofit program administrators and directors interested in (or tasked with) implementing undergraduate programs require a resource where they can find information for recruiting and retaining the next wave of public and nonprofit workers. While similar to graduate public affairs programs, undergraduate programs may differ in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Affairs Education, Personnel Selection, Outcomes of Education
Ryan, Paul, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
Paul Ryan has brought together the writings of the most prominent British research into vocational preparation in Britain in comparison to the other advanced economies, primarily within the EEC. The book, originally published in 1991, documents various aspects of inadequacy in British practice at the time, concentrating upon intermediate skills,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Kahl, Christian, Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
Over the last decade, many local students have preferred to study overseas. This has caused governments to announce the creation of programs and developments in the higher education sector to upgrade South-East Asia to a leading education hub. Moreover, many governments declared that they would work on the insurance of learning to increase the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Mobility, Foreign Students
Loo, Sai, Ed.; Jameson, Jill, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2016
"Vocationalism in Further and Higher Education" presents a collection of research-based papers on the 'English model' of vocationalism and higher education. It argues that negative societal and political perceptions have hindered the debate about the significance and relevance of vocational education and training provision to learning,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Training
Silva, Anderson, Ed.; Pontes, Elvis, Ed.; Guelfi, Adilson, Ed.; Kofuji, Sergio Takeo, Ed. – InTech, 2012
Chapters in this book include: (1) Courseware Adaptation to Learning Styles and Knowledge Level (Boyan Bontchev and Dessislava Vassileva); (2) Assisted On-Job Training (Claudio Teixeira and Joaquim Sousa Pinto); (3) Self-Directed Learning Readiness Factors in Physicians for Implementing E-Learning in the Continuing Medical Education Programs…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Computer Assisted Instruction, Job Training, Teaching Methods
Rothwell, William J., Ed.; Gerity, Patrick E., Ed. – Community College Press (NJ3), 2008
"Linking Workforce Development to Economic Development: A Casebook for Community Colleges" is a compilation of best practice examples, which illustrate what it takes for community colleges to achieve their goal of helping people acquire education and skills, helping employers, supporting communities, and building the nation. The book is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Economic Development, Best Practices
Jarvis, Peter, Ed.; Watts, Mary, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into learning: it brings together a diverse range of…
Descriptors: Learning, Perception, Cognitive Processes, Nurses
Download full textRothwell, William J., Ed.; Gerity, Patrick E., Ed.; Gaertner, Elaine S., Ed. – American Association of Community Colleges, 2004
This book is written for workforce developers in community colleges and branch campus settings. College administrators, public officials, and employers may also find it helpful because it will give them a frame of reference for directing--or judging the quality of--community college workforce developers, the functions they oversee, the results…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Strategic Planning
Kalleberg, Arne L.; Knoke, David; Marsden, Peter V.; Spaeth, Joe L. – 1996
In 1991 the National Organizations Study (NOS) surveyed a number of U.S. businesses about their structure, context, and personnel practices to produce a database for answering questions about social behavior in work organizations. This book presents the results of that survey. The study aimed to create a national database on organizations--based…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Bureaucracy, Business Administration, Employer Employee Relationship
Steuerle, C. Eugene, Ed.; Ooms, Van Doorn, Ed.; Peterson, George E., Ed.; Reischauer, Robert D., Ed. – 2000
Studies in this volume provide a comprehensive examination of the use of vouchers. The contributions to this book examine a variety of applications in such areas as education, child care, employment training, housing, food, and health care, and they discuss the dimensions along which vouchers should be compared to alternative delivery mechanisms.…
Descriptors: Day Care, Delivery Systems, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Deakin Univ., Victoria (Australia). – 1994
This publication is part of the study materials for the one-semester distance education unit, Human Resource Development, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University (Australia). It contains three essays that explore the approaches to learning currently modeled within industry. "Training for Women" (Kathy MacDermott) presents the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employed Women, Females, Foreign Countries
Weissert, Carol S., Ed. – 2000
This book examines welfare reform, occasioned by the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which abolished Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). It is based on research in Ohio, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan that…
Descriptors: Adults, Change, Children, Compliance (Legal)
Ciofalo, Andrew, Ed. – 1992
The 31 papers in this book ar grouped into 5 sections, of which the first consists of an introductory essay by A. Ciofalo, "What Every Professor and Worksite Supervisor Should Know about Internships." Section 2, on learning from experience, contains "Perspectives on Learning in Internships" (D. T. Moore); "Integrating the Traditions of…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Internship Programs
