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Goglio, Valentina; Bertolini, Sonia – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2021
Purpose: The study aims to investigate whether participation to massive open online courses (MOOCs) may lead to labor market returns and through which mechanisms such relative advantage may take place. Indeed, despite high figures of registered users, empirical studies on occupational returns are limited and MOOCs may represent a viable,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Labor Force Development, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Boyadjieva, Pepka; Ilieva-Trichkova, Petya – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
The article outlines a theoretical framework for conceptualising adult education--and more broadly, lifelong learning--as a common good. It argues that the extent to which adult education as a common good is accomplished in a given society/country reflects its accessibility, availability, affordability and the social commitment to its functioning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Indexes, Cross Cultural Studies
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Frank, Eric, Ed. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1991
This overview of vocational education and training in Europe gives (1) detailed descriptions of the educational systems of Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, and Switzerland; (2) discussion of European Community projects; (3) 50 references; (4) addresses of information sources; and (5) a glossary in English, Danish, German,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bibliographies, Community Programs, Educational Trends
European Training Foundation, Turin (Italy). – 1999
In comparison with the context in which reforms usually occur, the current vocational education and training (VET) reforms in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and New Independent States (NIS) have these two unusual aspects: breadth, range, and depth of VET reforms are extremely large; and the reform process is exceptionally rapid. The European…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Change
Mansfield, Bob, Ed. – 2000
This is the third publication in the European Training Foundation's (ETF's) series of manuals designed to support development of vocational education and training (VET) standards. This volume looks at ways in which VET standards are linked to labor market demands and how relevant VET standards are to the needs of employment in a market economy.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Developed Nations
1999
The first of the four papers in this symposium, "Towards a Meaningful HRD [Human Resource Development] Function in the Post-Command Economies of Central and Eastern Europe" (Devi Jankowicz), examines the existing knowledge-base among managers who are to be trained as HRD practitioners and suggests that efforts may be constrained by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Education, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness