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The Automated Literacies of E-Recruitment and Online Services
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Smythe, Suzanne; Grotlüschen, Anke; Buddeberg, Klaus – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2021
Online technologies have entered almost all spheres of life, introducing new challenges to how literacies are theorised, defined and taken up in adult literacy education settings. This process has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic and on a global scale, as more services, resources and information move online. An important, if under-studied…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Adults, Job Applicants, Computer Use
Collaborating with Mature English Language Learners to Combine Peer and Automated Feedback: A User-Centered Approach to Designing Writing Support
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Liaqat, Amna; Munteanu, Cosmin; Demmans Epp, Carrie – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2021
300,000 immigrants move to Canada each year in search of better economic opportunities, and many have limited English language skills. Improving written literacy of newcomers can enhance education, employment, or social integration opportunities. However, frequent, timely, and personalized feedback is not always possible for immigrants. Online…
Descriptors: Adult Students, English Language Learners, Feedback (Response), Automation
Adult Learning in the Control Society: Digital Era Governance, Literacies of Control, and the Work of Adult Educators
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Smythe, Suzanne – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2018
This article reports on a study of adult literacy and learning in a public computing center where people contend with the new literacy demands of online government and other automated technologies. The study asks, (1) What literacy and learning practices are associated with digital governance? (2) What pedagogies support people to navigate digital…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Learning, Governance, Adult Education
Re-Imagining Education Policy and Practice in the Digital Era
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Altass, Patricia; Wiebe, Sean – Online Submission, 2017
New digital technologies are changing the nature and contexts of work in Canada. It is essential that education policy and practice acknowledge and respond to these changes. The impacts and implications of new and emerging technologies for work can be summarized within two paradigms: technology is replacing work through automation and digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personnel Management, Automation, Fundamental Concepts
Tech High: Globalization and the Future of Canadian Education. A Collection of Critical Perspectives on Social, Cultural, and Political Dilemmas.
Moll, Marita, Ed. – 1997
If the public policy goal to connect all schools to the information highway becomes a reality, public education as Canadians have known it--a shared social responsibility and a generally shared social experience--could be lost. This volume of contributed papers brings into focus the new context within which the struggle to technologize education…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
School Based Student Records Package Evaluation Report.
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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1991
An important goal of the Educational Information Exchange (EIE) of Alberta Education is to provide leadership in promoting school student record automation. This document presents a mechanism for the review, evaluation, and recommendation of school-based student records software for the EIE. The report provides an overview of the initiative to…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education