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Krogh, Lester C. – Engineering Education, 1989
Notes that technical education must be an ongoing, career long activity and a normal part of the job. Lists objectives considered to ensure employees are at the forefront of their specialty. Discusses four types of courses offered by 3M's educational program. (MVL)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Improvement Programs, Industrial Training, Industry
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Morton, Desmond – Canadian Social Studies, 1994
Asserts that the most significant issue related to the television documentary, "The Valour and the Horror," was not any suggested bias by the producers but the media elite's determination to control public opinion under the banner of free speech. Maintains that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation refused to allow criticism by veterans…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Bias, Broadcast Industry, Documentaries
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Grey, Mark A. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1997
Two case studies address the relationship between dual labor markets and rural schools, particularly the demographic transformation of rural school districts that host meatpacking plants that recruit immigrant workers. These schools have experienced an increase in non- and limited-English-speaking students. Employee turnover is reflected in school…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns
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Leonard, Barbara G. – Library Trends, 1994
Examines the academic library's information resources budget. Topics discussed include allocation methodologies; academic library budgets; economic and social issues; the library and its relationship to the university; technology and publishing; scholarly communication; user demands; alternatives, including redirecting the budget away from print…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Economic Change, Economic Factors
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Rainsford, Carol; Murphy, Eamonn – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: The focus of this paper is to highlight the issues impacting technology-enhanced learning (TEL) in an industrial setting in Ireland. The paper uses the output from a community of practice (CoP) set up to identify and discuss these issues. Seven companies participated in the CoP. Their experiences represented the full spectrum of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Industry, Discussion Groups
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Gibb, Dwight – History Teacher, 2002
If history teachers' aim is to teach students how to think, why not ask: What forms of thought do historians use, and what specific techniques will inculcate these forms? In this article, the author proposes a fundamental shift, from courses with a focus on the mastery of data to courses with a priority on learning the historian's craft. The…
Descriptors: World History, Death, Social Change, Grade 10
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Rehman, Sajjad ur; Chaudhry, Abdus Sattar – Education for Information, 2005
This paper investigates the perceptions of the heads of 12 Library and Information Science (LIS) schools on Knowledge Management (KM) education. These heads from North America, Europe and the Pacific region had either been offering KM courses or had an apparent interest in such programs. Data about perceptions were gathered on the nature of their…
Descriptors: Industry, Professional Associations, Foreign Countries, Enrollment
Curtin, Penelope, Ed. – 1998
This book contains 31 papers from a conference on future training issues in Australia's industries. The following papers are included: "Training Development in Australia" (Chris Ellison); "Meeting National and Employer Training Requirements" (Mark Paterson); "Meeting Employee Training Requirements" (Bill Mansfield);…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agriculture, Building Trades, Case Studies
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Ingraham, Bruce Douglas; Ingraham, Shirley May – E-Learning, 2006
This article has two objectives: to explore the changing power relationships within the quality management practices of United Kingdom higher education with specific reference to online learning and the role of learning technologists; and to explore some of the issues surrounding the potential to represent academic discourse through media other…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Academic Discourse, Online Courses, Power Structure
Cowie, Peter, Ed. – 1995
This publication resulted from a project of the British Film Institute (bfi). The aim was to emphasize that cinema takes a number of different forms, fulfills a variety of roles within different societies, and has different models of its social function. Toward this end, film-makers from all over the world were invited to write a diary about the…
Descriptors: Acting, Animation, Artists, Career Exploration
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1995
This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies)…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Behavioral Objectives
Eastfield Coll., Mesquite, TX. – 1995
Eastfield Community College (ECC) of Texas' Dallas Community College District obtained funding to examine the current skill standards for the job training of telecommunication manufacturing production specialists. Together with the firm Partners in Profound Knowledge (PPK), ECC documented and compared the skill standards required for…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development
Mississippi Research and Curriculum Unit for Vocational and Technical Education, State College. – 1996
This document, which is intended for use by community and junior colleges throughout Mississippi, contains curriculum frameworks for the course sequences in the forestry technology program cluster. Presented in the introductory section are a description of the program and suggested course sequence. Section I lists baseline competencies for the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agronomy, Behavioral Objectives, Careers
Mississippi Research and Curriculum Unit for Vocational and Technical Education, State College. – 1996
This document, which reflects Mississippi's statutory requirement that instructional programs be based on core curricula and performance-based assessment, contains outlines of the instructional units required in local instructional management plans and daily lesson plans for machine tool operation/machine shop I and II. Presented first are a…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Competence
Blanchette, Judith – 1996
Canadians find it necessary to both define and defend their cultural identity partly because their historic, geographic, and political differences from the United States are frequently overshadowed by the many characteristics the two countries share: a continent, a very high standard of living, a language, and a popular culture as presented…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bias, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software
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