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Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
Impressions are influential. Through more than 40,000 interviews of people aged 25 and over in the European Union (EU), Norway and Iceland, this survey explores people's impressions about adult learning and continuing vocational education and training (CVET), which are central to enabling adults acquire the knowledge, skills and competences they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Job Skills
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
Impressions are influential. Through more than 40,000 interviews of people aged 25 and over in the European Union, Norway and Iceland, Cedefop's second opinion survey explores people's impressions about adult learning and continuing vocational education and training (CVET), which are central to enabling adults acquire the knowledge, skills and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Job Skills
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Lee, Jane; Sanders, Taren; Antczak, Devan; Parker, Rhiannon; Noetel, Michael; Parker, Philip; Lonsdale, Chris – Review of Educational Research, 2021
The internet has become the chosen medium for professional learning. Completing professional learning can improve work performance; however, many individuals who begin online courses do not complete them. It is not well understood which influences keep individuals engaged in online professional learning. We address these issues with a systematic…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Influences, Value Judgment, Professional Continuing Education
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Kohnke, Lucas – Online Learning, 2021
While technology use is becoming increasingly common in education, teachers remain reluctant to use technology and hesitant on how best to incorporate it into their teaching and practice. There is a strong demand from institutions for English language teachers to cope with the changing landscape of teaching in the twenty-first century. This…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, College Faculty, Language Teachers
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Kowalczuk-Waledziak, Marta; Lopes, Amélia; Underwood, James; Daniela, Linda; Clipa, Otilia – Teaching Education, 2020
The relationship between master's thesis work and teachers' professional development has rarely been explored empirically, yet. Drawing upon a larger study, this paper investigates how teachers who were studying for or who have recently graduated from Master of Education programmes offered in five countries -- Poland, Portugal, England, Latvia,…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education, Teacher Education Programs, Masters Programs
Muser, Heather M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The context and experiences of student-parents is an important topic for higher education. Educators need to know who these adult students are and where they come from. Due to the additional responsibilities that student-parents carry, educators are challenged by the fact that most of these adult students are enrolled in higher education on a…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Parents, Parent Responsibility, Undergraduate Students
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Fettes, Mark – Democracy & Education, 2013
Three variations of experience identified in the educational literature entail different ways of thinking about and developing learners' imaginations. The relationship between these different imaginative modes resembles shifts between different kinds of understanding in Kieran Egan's theory of imaginative development. From this theoretical…
Descriptors: Experience, Value Judgment, Imagination, Development
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2019
Higher education has seen significant changes in the student experience in the past 10 years. For the past decade, everything from student attitudes about college to the technology they use every day has impacted their satisfaction with, and perception of, the college experience. This report is a comparison of student satisfaction, separated by 10…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Public Colleges
Huwe, Terence K. – Computers in Libraries, 2012
Although it is pretty easy to find colleagues who will express fatigue or frustration about the constant need for libraries to prove their value proposition, there is also an upside to the exercise of crafting a message that justifies librarians' mission. The catch is that however good their crafted message may be, they must forget about ever…
Descriptors: Evidence, Librarians, Influence of Technology, Value Judgment
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Basarab, Dave – Performance Improvement, 2011
The Predictive Evaluation (PE) model is a training and evaluation approach with the element of prediction. PE allows trainers and business leaders to predict the results, value, intention, adoption, and impact of training, allowing them to make smarter, more strategic training and evaluation investments. PE is invaluable for companies that…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Training Objectives, Prediction, Models
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Ruth, Damian; Naidoo, Kogi – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
This paper presents the cooperative analysis by a lecturer and an academic development practitioner of a reflective journal dialogue over the 12 weeks of teaching a postgraduate course. Through a retrospective analysis of the journal the present paper explores the following issues: the framing of an inquiry; the personal-professional nexus; and…
Descriptors: Reflection, Diaries, Dialogs (Language), Cooperation
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Martin, Frank; Smith, Ronnie – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
The issue of whether or not entrepreneurs really learn from experience has been one of the key themes of entrepreneurship research. If they do learn from experience, what do they learn? The importance of knowledge and learning to the performance of a business has been highlighted by many authors, who emphasize the role of life cycle, learning from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Biographies, Experience
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2018
The Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL) Satisfaction-Priorities Surveys are the national standard for benchmarking student satisfaction in higher education. Since 1994, more than 2,900 colleges and universities have used the surveys to evaluate students' concerns that influence student success, college completion, student recruitment, strategic planning,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Public Colleges
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Franz, Nancy; Stovall, Celvia; Owen, Mitch – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2010
This study was designed to determine the value of the Southern Region Cooperative Extension Program Leadership Network in the United States. Of particular interest was determining the value added by the network for individual extension administrators, their state organizations, and the southern region. The researchers conducted a series of focus…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Administrative Organization, Organizational Effectiveness, Leadership
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2017
For more than two decades, the national standard for benchmarking student satisfaction in higher education has been the Ruffalo Noel Levitz Satisfaction-Priorities Surveys. Since their beginning in 1994, these benchmark surveys have been used by more than 2,900 U.S. colleges and universities to evaluate students' concerns that correspond with…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Public Colleges
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