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Minnesota Teamsters Service Bureau, Minneapolis. – 1992
This guide presents step-by-step strategies for analyzing workplace literacy training needs through collaborative business, adult basic education (ABE), and worker partnerships. The first chapter provides an overview of literacy in the workplace and highlights challenges currently facing Minnesota and the nation as a whole in meeting needs for a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Cooperative Planning, Educational Cooperation
Richey, Rita – 1992
Instructional design as a discipline is currently experiencing rapid expansion on a variety of fronts: theoretical, technological, philosophical, and in the spheres of practice. This book is about changing design theory and practice to meet the challenges of this growth in the particular area of adult learning. The six chapters address the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Industrial Training, Instructional Design
McCarthy, Karin; Lashman, Rebekah – 1994
This report is the product of a project called Investing in People, in which the National Conference of Legislatures and Jobs for the Future helped five states as they tried to develop and implement work force preparation and training strategies to meet the challenge of a competitive global economy. The report is organized in six sections. The…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demand Occupations, Dislocated Workers, Employment Practices
McKeever, Pam, Comp. – 1991
Workplace literacy programs are employer- and/or union-sponsored basic skills upgrading programs for workers and their families. Community-based literacy programs can support workplace programs. Several factors should be considered in Northern Ontario workplace literacy programs: (1) technological change; (2) aging population; (3) outmigration of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Community Programs, Continuing Education
Marsh, Ferman; And Others – 1991
A statistical overview of the current training opportunities designed to meet the changing needs of business and industry in Kansas is provided in this report, covering services offered by public community colleges, area vocational technical schools, and the Kansas Industrial Training Program. An executive summary, which draws on an extensive…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development
Castin, Franz – 1987
This document presents an overview and synthesis of the involvement of employers' and employers' organizations in the development of vocational training policy in Europe. Material was gathered through the personal experience of the author and from interviews with those responsible for vocational training in various employers' professional…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Continuing Education, Educational Policy, Employer Attitudes
Lillard, Lee A.; Tan, Hong W. – 1986
Training after high school in the United States was studied to determine who is trained and the extent of training, as well as economic consequences of training. Data sources were the Current Population Survey (CPS) of 1983, the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) of Labor Market Experience (NLS Young Men, Mature Men, and Women cohorts for 1967 to…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Corporate Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship
Dumdi, Eleanor S.; Bezayiff, David – 1984
The Oregon Extern Program was undertaken to enable 15 educators and industry trainers to acquire the skills, attitudes, and knowledge necessary to develop, implement, improve, and evaluate local programs of vocational and career education and employment and training programs. Project participants attended a one-week orientation seminar during…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Needs, Field Experience Programs, Followup Studies
Madeira, Eugene L. – 1980
Based on the experience of 130 local adult basic education (ABE) directors in Pennsylvania, this guide presents suggestions for recruiting the least educated adults into ABE programs. Following an introduction that defines ABE and examines whose responsibility ABE is, the guide is divided into 12 chapters. Each of the chapters develops one…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Counseling, Adult Students, Advertising
Edling, Walter – 1978
Lorain County Community College (LCCC) has provided training programs for the employees of the United States Steel Corporation since 1969 and for the Lorain Telephone Company since 1977. These training programs are campus-based, and the students attend classes for four or five week periods at a time. An effort has been made to adhere as closely as…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education
Covelli, Nicholas J. – 1979
A study was undertaken at Gateway Technical Institute (GTI) to determine the perceptions of GTI faculty and staff and of members of the local business and industrial community with regard to how GTI could best utilize its resources in the face of declining enrollments. The study involved a survey of the 215 full-time faculty and staff of GTI and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Ancillary School Services, College Administration, Community Surveys
WOLFBEIN, SEYMOUR L. – 1967
DURING THE EARLY 1960'S, THREE PRIMARY CHANGES OCCURRED IN THE UNITED STATES WHICH CALLED FOR A BASIC REORIENTATION IN ATTITUDES, POLICIES, AND PROGRAMS OF ACTION. INVOLVED WERE (1) AN ECONOMIC POLICY TO REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT THROUGH ECONOMIC GROWTH (1964 REVENUE ACT), (2) AN ACTIVE MANPOWER POLICY TO PROVIDE A TRAINED LABOR SUPPLY (1965 MANPOWER…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Economic Progress, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Level
Naval Training Device Center, Orlando, FL. – 1967
This report consists of 40 conference papers actually presented, and four others submitted but not presented due to lack of time. It concentrates on the technical problems confronting organizations having a prime interest in simulation for training, and stresses the cooperation of the military educator and the technical community to achieve a…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Contracts, Cost Effectiveness
Levine, Herbert A. – 1975
The paper discusses both European and American approaches to providing and funding recurrent educational opportunities for workers and their families. A section covers actions and studies of international organizations regarding paid educational leave and European attempts to increase educational opportunities through national and State…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Cooperative Planning
Hall, Clyde W. – 1973
Since coverage of the history of industrial training of blacks in the United States is lacking, the author has compiled a single volume tracing this history from the plantation era. All phases are described--early schools prior to 1865, private and public industrial institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Education, Black Employment, Black History
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