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Zabudsky, Jeff – 2000
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton, Alberta, has undertaken a project called LOGging Our Curriculum. The goals of the project, which involves creating a fully outcomes-based curriculum across the institution and housing that curriculum in a database that is accessible to NAIT instructors over the World Wide Web, are as…
Descriptors: Classification, Competency Based Education, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
Pair, Claude – 1994
Reports analyzing vocational-technical education (VTE) in individual member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) were reviewed to identify changes in the role of VTE in the context of technological and structural change, economic crisis, and uncertainty. Major transformations in VTE affecting its organization,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Environment
1997
This document contains four papers from a symposium on university instruction in human resource development (HRD). "Comparison of Student Reactions in Traditional and Videoconferencing Courses in Training and Development " (Julie A. Furst-Bowe) finds few differences in student attitudes about the two types of courses. "The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Competence, Conventional Instruction
Association for Educational Data Systems, Washington, DC. – 1976
Eighteen papers on instructional technology, computerized testing, and computer assisted test construction (CATC) presented at the 1976 Association for Educational Data Systems (AEDS) convention are included here. Two papers discuss computer assisted instruction in calculus and teacher education courses. The use of computers in theoretical…
Descriptors: Calculators, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Oriented Programs
Greenspan, Alan – 2000
From a macroeconomic perspective, the evolving demand for skills in the United States has been triggered by the accelerated expansion of computer and information technology, which has, in turn, brought significant changes to the workplace. Technological advances have made some wholly manual jobs obsolete. But even for many other workers, a rapidly…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Articulation (Education), Demand Occupations, Education Work Relationship
Carney, Thomas Q., Ed.; Luedtke, Jacqueline R., Ed.; Johnson, Jeffrey A., Ed. – Collegiate Aviation Review, 1999
This document, published annually, contains six papers devoted to aviation education. "Enhancing Global Competitiveness: Benchmarking Airline Operational Performance in Highly Regulated Environments" (Brent D. Bowen, Dean Headley, Karisa D. Kane, Rebecca K. Lutte) outlines a model to help policymakers and others evaluate the effects of…
Descriptors: Airports, Aviation Education, Aviation Technology, College Faculty
Schofield, Kaye; Melville, Bernice; Bennet, Deb; Walsh, Anne – 2001
The extent of vocational education and training (VET) teachers' knowledge about and experiences of online learning and teaching was examined in a collaborative research project undertaken with leading practitioners of VET online in technical and further education (TAFE) in South Australia in 2000. Eighteen VET practitioners considered at the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Change Agents, Change Strategies, Education Work Relationship
Urven, Lance E.; Yin, L. Roger; Bak, John D. – 1998
In fall 1997, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (UWW) provided Science and Technology in Society, a university general studies science literacy course, to advanced placement high school students at three local high schools, using a combination of live video presentations and World Wide Web (WWW) courseware. A total of 26 high school students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, Audiovisual Communications, College Students
Clark, Catherine P. – 1990
Texas school district fiscal response to a state-level call for increased emphasis on technology is examined. The response, in this instance, is budgeted expenditures on a per-student basis on computing and data processing for the 1988-89 school year. Response is investigated as a function of district characteristics such as wealth per student,…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Data Processing, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Equity (Finance)
2002
This document contains two papers from a symposium on learning on the job. "Professional Crisis Workers: Impact of Repeated Exposure to Human Pain and Destructiveness" (Lynn Atkinson-Tovar) examines the following topics: (1) the secondary and vicarious traumatic stress disorder that affects many professional crisis workers who are…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Counselors, Definitions, Developing Nations
Putnam, A. R. – 2001
Research on how the brain works has resulted in wider-scale adoption of the principles of problem-based learning (PBL) in many areas of education, including technology education. The PBL approach is attractive to curriculum developers because it is based on interdisciplinary learning, results in multiple outcomes, is integrated and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adoption (Ideas), Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education
The Hague International Model United Nations (Netherlands). Youth Assembly. – 2001
The education systems that are in place throughout the world were created for a society different from the one that exists now. These outdated educational systems lead to a lack of motivation on the part of teacher and student and stifle new initiatives. Actions to improve this situation include the following: (1) revising the current amount and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking
Anderson, Clinton L.; Kime, Steve F. – 1996
The U.S. military has made numerous important contributions to the development of adult and continuing education. As in civilian adult education, military innovations in education have consistently used workplace learning. The educational benefits produced by the GI Bill democratized education by exploding the myth that "common" people…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Articulation (Education), Competency Based Education
Northrup, Pamela Taylor; Pilcher, Janet K. – 1998
Support for Teachers Enhancing Performance in Schools (STEPS) is a World Wide Web and CD-ROM electronic performance support system (EPSS) designed for preK-12 and preservice educators to assist in designing and developing lessons, units, or curricula; this tool was developed around school reform and accountability initiatives in Florida. To…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Computer Software Development, Computer Uses in Education
Wulf, Volker; Schinzel, Britta – 1998
This paper reports on a pilot project in which German universities in Freiburg, Constance, Mannheim, Stuttgart, and Ulm connected computer science departments via the Internet for a summer 1997 telelecture and teletutorial on computers and society. The first section provides background on telelearning and introduces the case study. The second…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, Audiovisual Communications, Case Studies
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