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Gallup, Amber – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2020
Apprenticeship is an internationally recognized model of learning receiving increased attention as it evolves to meet the needs of modern workers, employers, and the labor market. As apprenticeship expands, and new industries explore the model, adult educators are being asked to help develop programs and pathways, write curriculum, serve as…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Apprenticeships, Program Development, Adult Education
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Robideau, Kari; Vogel, Eric – Journal of Extension, 2014
Volunteers are central to the delivery of 4-H programs, and providing quality, relevant training is key to volunteer success. Online, asynchronous modules are an enhancement to a training delivery menu for adult volunteers, providing consistent, accessible options traditionally delivered primarily face to face. This article describes how Minnesota…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Volunteer Training
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Maddy, Bruce; Gerber, Corey K.; Hillger, David – Journal of Extension, 2015
Extension personnel, agricultural companies, and contract researchers invest a great deal of resources through time, money, and manpower to educate crop consultants, producers, students, and new employees. Creating an in-field, real world, and hands-on learning environment affords an opportunity to engage individuals to learn in ways that cannot…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Demonstrations (Educational), Field Instruction, Program Development
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Patry, Anne; Brown, Elizabeth Campbell; Rousseau, Rémi; Caron, Jeanette – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2015
This case recounts the story of the design and production of a series of online workshops for French-speaking healthcare professionals in Canada. The project spans a couple of years and, despite encountering some challenges, succeeds in large part because of its strong foundation: the instructional design. This case study features an instructional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Instructional Design, Online Courses
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Tracey, Monica W.; Kacin, Sara E. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2014
The following design case illustrates the approach a group of advanced graduate online-design students, two design coaches, and an instructor used to design an online instructional intervention as a service-learning project for parents interested in improving their parenting skills with their pre-teens. This design case is distinctive in that it…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Graduate Students, Parent Education, Instructional Design
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Rubens, Wilfred – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can be regarded as a promising next step in the evolution of distance education. However, they have been criticised for their poor learning design. This article describes the development of an adequate learning design in a series of nineteen MOOCs (called online master classes). A formative evaluation focuses on…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Instructional Design, Educational Technology
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van Tryon; Patricia J. Slagter – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2013
With an eye toward contemporary skill building to meet community centered economic needs, organizations such as Literacy Volunteers of America are increasingly pressured to examine new avenues in promoting employment readiness skills for the newly literate. These organizations and countless others have come to the realization that being prepared…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Influence of Technology, Partnerships in Education, Adult Literacy
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Guion, Lisa A. – Journal of Extension, 2010
A quick glance of the Extension literature will reflect a resurgence of interest and focus on integrated (interdisciplinary) issues-based programming. However, the development of methods, tools, and techniques for developing integrated issues-based programs has not kept pace. This article presents a checklist to aid interdisciplinary Extension…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Interdisciplinary Approach, Extension Agents, Extension Education
Easton, Lois Brown – Corwin, 2011
If you are looking for an organic approach to purpose-driven professional learning, this is the book for you. Award-winning educator Lois Brown Easton's latest work provides a compelling case study in narrative form, a chronological PLC planning outline, and first-hand "lessons learned" about how PLCs develop, mature, and sustain themselves. You…
Descriptors: Discussion, Intentional Learning, Inservice Teacher Education, Guides
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Ravenscroft, A.; Schmidt, A.; Cook, J.; Bradley, C. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012
This paper presents an original approach to designing social media that support informal learning in the digital workplace. It adapts design-based research to take into account the embeddedness of interactions within digitally mediated work-based contexts. The approach is demonstrated through the design, implementation, and evaluation of software…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Formative Evaluation, Methods, Organizational Development
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Jaillet, Alain – American Journal of Distance Education, 2011
The articles published in "D & S" concerning the creation and operation of remote training methods can be characterized according to the points of view taken by experts or researchers. The authors are interested in three particular aspects of the training process: organization, design, and impact. Different approaches in the design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Distance Education
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Ragan, Lawrence C.; Bigatel, Paula Mae; Kennan, Shannon S.; Dillon, Janet May – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2012
This article describes the design and development of a professional development program based upon research on the competencies necessary for online teaching success conducted at Penn State University in 2009-2010. The article highlights how the results of this research are being aligned with various professional development courses comprising the…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, College Faculty, Distance Education, Online Courses
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Kaufman, Eric K.; Rateau, Richard J.; Carter, Hannah S.; Strickland, L. Rochelle – Journal of Leadership Education, 2012
One method to develop leaders is through leadership development programs designed specifically for an intended context. The International Leadership Association (ILA) provides questions for designing programs such programs. This article reflects data collected during the process of developing a leadership program serving the broader agricultural…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Leadership Training, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations
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Wang, Victor C. X., Ed.; Bryan, Valerie C., Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
Today's ever-changing learning environment is characterized by the fast pace of technology that drives our society to move forward, and causes our knowledge to increase at an exponential rate. The need for in-depth research that is bound to generate new knowledge about curriculum and program development is becoming ever more relevant.…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Program Development
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Antonis, Konstantinos; Daradoumis, Thanasis; Papadakis, Spyros; Simos, Christos – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
This paper reports on work undertaken within a pilot study concerned with the design, development, and evaluation of online computer science training courses. Drawing on recent developments in e-learning technology, these courses were structured around the principles of a learner-oriented approach for use with adult learners. The paper describes a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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