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Learning from Experience: From Case-Based Teaching to Experience-Based Learning
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van der Steen, Martijn; Van Twist, Mark; Frissen, Paul – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
Senior-level civil servants can learn a lot from methods such as theory-lectures and case-teaching, but there is another resource of knowledge and insight that can be utilized more for teaching public administration: the professional experience of participants in training programmes. This paper argues that it is possible to use the professional…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Experiential Learning, Government Employees, Public Administration Education
Employer Engagement in Education: Insights from International Evidence for Effective Practice and Future Research
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Mann, Anthony; Rehill, Jordan; Kashefpakdel, Elnaz T. – Education Endowment Foundation, 2018
This study, commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), is designed to review current evidence on the most effective ways in which employers can support schools to improve pupil educational and economic outcomes. It is a study in three parts. It aims, first, to conceptualise employer engagement in education as a strategic tool,…
Descriptors: Employers, School Business Relationship, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Hybrid Learning Environments: Merging Learning and Work Processes to Facilitate Knowledge Integration and Transitions. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 81
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Zitter, Ilya; Hoeve, Aimee – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This paper deals with the problematic nature of the transition between education and the workplace. A smooth transition between education and the workplace requires learners to develop an integrated knowledge base, but this is problematic as most educational programmes offer knowledge and experiences in a fragmented manner, scattered over a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Education Work Relationship, Workplace Learning
Lifelong Learning within HE in The Netherlands
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van den Dungen, Marja – European Journal of Education, 2009
This article focuses on work-based learning in higher vocational education and training in relation to lifelong learning. It begins with an overview of the Dutch National Policy and the ambitions of a national Project Directorate Learning & Working. It then goes on to the concrete results of projects within higher education (HE) aimed at the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Lifelong Learning, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Self-Assessment in University Assessment of Prior Learning Procedures
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Brinke, D. Joosten-Ten; Sluijsmans, D. M. A.; Jochems, W. M. G. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
Competency-based university education, in which lifelong learning and flexible learning are key elements, demands a renewed vision on assessment. Within this vision, Assessment of Prior Learning (APL), in which learners have to show their prior learning in order for their goals to be recognised, becomes an important element. This article focuses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Prior Learning, Evidence
Wage Effects of an Extra Year of Basic Vocational Education
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Oosterbeek, Hessel; Webbink, Dinand – Economics of Education Review, 2007
Until 1975 around half of all graduates from Dutch basic vocational schools finished a 3-year program, the other half finished a 4-year program. In 1975 all 3-year programs were extended to four years. This was accompanied by an increase of the compulsory school leaving age with one year. The authors evaluate the long-term wage effects of this…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Wages, Graduates, Work Experience