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Kim, Kevin Gonyop; Oertel, Catharine; Dillenbourg, Pierre – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Context: Exploring the design space is an important process in a design task. In this study, we considered design space exploration for the learners in vocational education and training (VET). The goal of the study was to investigate how they explore the design space while focusing on the effect of a graph-like interface on the learner's…
Descriptors: Floriculture, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Courseware
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Smith, Sally; Caddell, Martha; Taylor-Smith, Ella; Smith, Colin; Varey, Alison – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2021
This article compares policy aims with experiences following the introduction of a new model for STEM apprenticeships in the UK. Degree apprentices work while studying for a degree, undertaking work-based learning and attending on-campus classes. Specifically, this study explores an implementation in Scotland, where computing degrees are designed…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, STEM Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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Smith, Sally; Taylor-Smith, Ella; Fabian, Khristin; Zarb, Mark; Paterson, James; Barr, Matthew; Berg, Tessa – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
This mixed-method study at six universities asked degree apprentices about their trajectories into the apprenticeship, to better understand the social mobility potential of apprenticeships. The degree apprenticeship offers a route to a degree for apprentices, who are employees studying for a degree. As a new model, little is known about the…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Apprenticeships, College Students, Student Interests
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Blackledge, Jonathan – Education Sciences, 2021
Before the effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic, there had been continued debate about the future of Higher Education (HE) in the UK. It is now accepted that the effect of the pandemic will have a long-lasting effect on HE in the UK and elsewhere. This paper addresses the changes that are currently taking place, based on a strategy that aims to develop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)
Kuehn, Daniel; Marotta, John; Arabandi, Bhavani; Katz, Batia – Urban Institute, 2021
Inclusive apprenticeship programs--those that support and are designed to be inclusive of apprentices with disabilities--hold promise for improving long-term employment outcomes for participants. However, little is known about the prevalence and operations of inclusive apprenticeship programs. This report summarizes current information on…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Apprenticeships, Students with Disabilities, Partnerships in Education
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2024
This publication was prepared as part of the Cedefop project The shift to learning outcomes: rhetoric or reality. The purpose of this research is to analyse the conceptual, structural and political factors influencing the transformation of intended learning outcomes into achieved learning outcomes. It is considered as a first step in a long-term…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Vocational Education, Educational Quality
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Hodgson, Ann; Spours, Ken; Smith, David – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
Apprenticeship systems across the globe are having to adapt to changing international economic and social trends. England is no exception. This article examines the latest model of apprenticeship in England from the perspective of the "mediators" who work at local and regional level with employers to construct and deliver the majority of…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Focus Groups, Small Businesses
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Akhavan, Nancy; Walsh, Nichole – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
This article explains a mixed methods study utilizing multiple cases in which answers to the question of how cognitive learning theory can influence instruction that maintains the central role that teachers have in the classroom, responding to students' learning needs as they work on authentic tasks. The researcher investigated the responses of…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
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Eiríksdóttir, Elsa – Education Sciences, 2020
This study examines how recently graduated journeymen, vocational teachers, and workplace trainers view the integration between learning at school and at work in a dual vocational education and training (VET) system, and how these views might be influenced by the duration and the sequencing of school- and work-based learning periods. Research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Vocational Education, High School Students
Hamilton, Stephen F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Current career pathways initiatives recapitulate in many ways both the issues motivating the school-to-work movement of the 1980s and 1990s and its recommended solutions, notably more work-based learning, especially apprenticeship. But that movement's energy dissipated in the face of college for all. Nonetheless, some of its achievements and many…
Descriptors: Career Development, Education Work Relationship, Apprenticeships, Work Experience Programs
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Rouvrais, Siegfried; Remaud, Bernard; Saveuse, Morgan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
To favour an early exposure of students to professional practice, several engineering higher education institutions have implemented integrated curricula, as proposed in the international CDIO educational framework. In the 1990s, the French engineering education accreditation body introduced in its quality standards a compulsory internship period.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Experience Programs, Engineering Education, Internship Programs
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Lester, Stan; Hofmann, Jens – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
The use of augmented reality (AR) in vocational education and training can still be considered as being in its infancy, although interest in it is growing in response both to its potential for teaching and its adoption as a practical tool in various industry sectors. One example of early-stage AR use is illustrated from a practicum for training…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Vocational Education, Practicums, Technology Integration
Hefler, Günter; Steinheimer, Eva – European Commission, 2020
This report summarises the results of the project "Measuring Learning Mobility in Vocational Education and Training" (specific contract n° VC/2019/0024 signed between Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Unit E3 and GOPA, under the Eurostat framework contract 2018.0086). The current project has aimed at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Assessment, Outcomes of Education
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Andersson, Per; Muhrman, Karolina – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Context: This study is about vocational education and training for adults within municipal adult education (MAE). Sweden has a long tradition of adult education, and has one of the world's highest proportions of participants in adult education. The Swedish education system is characterised by extensive marketisation with many private actors,…
Descriptors: Marketing, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Municipalities
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Bonoli, Lorenzo; Gonon, Philipp – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2022
Vocational education and training (VET) systems around the world serve many aims, the most important of which can be grouped into three main aims: economic, social and educational aims. These different aims find their roots in different socio-cultural and economic contexts and their importance in the functioning of the systems evolves according to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Objectives, Economic Factors, Discourse Analysis
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