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Download full textBrown, Bettina Lankard – 2001
Women and minorities are underrepresented in technology-related careers for many reasons, including lack of access, level of math and science achievement, and emotional and social attitudes about computer capabilities. Schools and teachers can use the following strategies to attract women and minorities to high-tech careers and prepare them for…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Education, Change Strategies, Community Colleges
Imel, Susan; Kerka, Sandra; Wonacott, Michael E. – 2002
Directed at practitioners in adult and career education, this document defines qualitative research, compares qualitative research to quantitative research, describes the "war" between proponents of each kind of research, describes how to assess qualitative research, and explains how to choose and use qualitative techniques. Pitfalls of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Bias
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2002
Teachers responsible for transforming their vocational education programs into career and technical education (CTE) programs need to concentrate on ensuring programs' technical and academic rigor, engaging in collaboration in school and in the community, keeping current through professional development experiences, and extending learning beyond…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Change Agents
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2002
New approaches to career and technical education (CTE) create new roles for career educators, including providing career awareness, counseling, guidance, and self-education. Career educators must understand and reflect upon career development theories; teaching and learning strategies; school-to-work practices; school/business linkages; and…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Career Academies, Career Counseling, Career Education
Imel, Susan – 2002
In adult education, the term "accelerated learning" (AL) is usually associated with programs designed to meet the needs of adult learners whose many commitments prevent them from participating in traditional programs. Within the field of training and development, however, AL identifies an approach to learning that is multidimensional in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Acceleration (Education), Adoption (Ideas)
Imel, Susan – 2002
Electronic learning, also known as e-learning, is generally defined as instruction and learning experiences that are delivered via electronic technology such as the Internet, audiotape and videotape, satellite broadcast, interactive television, and CD-ROM. Web-based learning, computer-based learning, and virtual classrooms are some of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Access to Education, Adult Education
