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Billett, Stephen; Hernon-Tinning, Barnie; Ehrich, Lisa – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2003
Understanding how learning for small businesses should best proceed constitutes a worthwhile, yet challenging, pedagogic project. In order to maintain their viability, small businesses need to be able to respond to new practices and tasks. Yet small businesses seem neither attracted to nor to value the kinds of taught courses that are the standard…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Learning Processes, Vocational Education, Educational Change
The CBT Decade: Teaching for Flexibility and Adaptability. An Overview.
Billett, Stephen; McKavanagh, Charlie; Beven, Fred; Angus, Lawrence; Seddon, Terri; Gough, John; Hayes, Sharon; Robertson, Ian – 1999
The contribution of competency-based training (CBT) to the development of an adaptable and flexible workforce was examined by analyzing documents and gathering data from teachers, industry representatives, enterprises, and students in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan sites in two Australian states: Victoria and Queensland. The study focused on…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Change Strategies, Competency Based Education, Curriculum
The CBT Decade: Teaching for Flexibility and Adaptability.
Billett, Stephen; McKavanagh, Charlie; Beven, Fred; Angus, Lawrence; Seddon, Terri; Gough, John; Hayes, Sharon; Robertson, Ian – 1999
A 1998 study conducted by researchers from the Centre For Learning and Work Research at Griffith Univ. and The Studies of Work, Education and Training, at Monash Univ. sought to evaluate the contributions of competency-based training (CBT) and assessment to Australian vocational education and training. "Introduction" (Stephen Billet,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Change Strategies, Competence, Competency Based Education