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Direct linkAshebir Tekle; Solomon Areaya; Getachew Habtamu – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: This research aims to explore stakeholder perspectives on Ethiopia's occupational competency assessment and certification systems. Design/methodology/approach: The study utilized a mixed-methods strategy within a concurrent embedded design and adopted a pragmatic perspective. Data collection involved questionnaires, interviews, and focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Certification, Competency Based Education
Alexandron, Giora; Wiltrout, Mary Ellen; Berg, Aviram; Gershon, Sa'ar Karp; Ruipérez-Valiente, José A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have touted the idea of democratizing education, but soon enough, this utopian idea collided with the reality of finding sustainable business models. In addition, the promise of harnessing interactive and social web technologies to promote meaningful learning was only partially successful. And…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Evaluation, Models, Learner Engagement
Knowlden, Adam P.; Cottrell, Randall R.; Henderson, James; Allison, Kathleen; Auld, M. Elaine; Kusorgbor-Narh, Cynthia S.; Lysoby, Linda; McKenzie, James F. – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Introduction: The Health Education Specialist Practice Analysis II 2020 (HESPA II 2020) described the contemporary practice of health education specialists across work settings at entry and advanced levels. The purpose of the HESPA II 2020 manuscript was to report the research process and resulting data associated with the HESPA II 2020 and to…
Descriptors: Health Education, Specialists, Knowledge Level, Health Promotion
McNamara, Jennifer; Bent, Margaret; Grace, Paul – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2019
Certification is often viewed to promote lifelong professional development. Industry accreditation agencies include standards for the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) that emphasize the measurement or promotion of continued competency throughout an individual's professional career. In 2013, NBCOT partnered with BreakAway Games to create the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Game Based Learning, Certification, Mandatory Continuing Education
Gambescia, Stephen F.; Lysoby, Linda; Perko, Michael; Sheu, Jiunn-Jye – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2016
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how one profession used an "experience documentation process" to grant advanced certification to qualified certified health education specialists. The competency validation process approved by the certifying organization serves as an example of an additional method, aside from traditional…
Descriptors: Health Education, Specialists, Work Experience, Certification
Raish, Victoria; Rimland, Emily – College & Research Libraries, 2016
Digital badges are an educational innovation used to measure learning of specific skills, such as information literacy. However, few studies have quantitatively surveyed employers for their perceptions about information literacy skills or digital badges. An online survey was developed and sent to employers to gauge perceptions of information…
Descriptors: Information Skills, Employer Attitudes, Statistical Analysis, Outcome Measures
