Describes a program for unemployed managers that used Action Learning principles. Concludes that the results of the course were impressive, as there was a 50 percent reemployment rate. (NJR)

Although corporate motives for training tend to be short-term, functional, and mission-oriented, more and more corporations and institutions of higher education are cooperating to offer employees classes carrying college credit. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the challenges, solutions, and compromises involved in creating computer-delivered training courseware for Apollo Travel Services, a company whose 50,000 agents must access a mainframe from many different computing configurations. Initial difficulties came in trying to manage random access memory and quicken response time, but the future…

Explains how this issue that includes papers from the 2001 Symposium on Online Learning (SOLE) in Malaysia was developed and describes the main activities of the symposium. Provides an overview of the 14 papers included in this issues, including academic papers and corporate papers. (LRW)

Discusses the term distributed education and its relationship to distance education. Topics include distributed training on corporate intranets; distributed expertise, which refers to the use of mediated communication for education and training by experts in different locations; and distributed, or situated, cognition, which would include…

Discusses changes in the delivery of education and training in light of businesses being driven by cost, quality, service, and speed. Examines the learning needs of employees and businesses; paradigm shifts caused by technology, particularly the Internet; knowledge management; performance support; and learning-oriented Web sites that link to…

Combining classic articles that have been key markers in recent debates with new and influential material, this book addresses the problems involved in educational research and the issues surrounding its contribution to policymaking and practice. The authors examine the diverse approaches within qualitative research and address some of the key…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between organisational support for career development (OSCD) and employees' career satisfaction. Based on an extended model of social cognitive career theory (SCCT) and an integrative model of proactive behaviours, the study proposed that career management behaviours would mediate…

In its policy statement on a new Education Act for Great Britain, the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions (ATTI) asserts that the proposed act is insufficient to meet accelerating demands on the educational system, especially in further and higher education. These demands are linked to social pressures for more and better education,…

Discusses the British attitude to training in general. Concentrates in particular on training in information technology and the response of managers. (SK)

Management must manage more cost effectively if it is to survive; every function must demonstrate its value-adding performance. Procedures such as training value analysis help make decisions about the value of programs and improve the return on investment of the training function and the organization it serves. (JOW)