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Werth, Eric P.; Werth, Loredana – Adult Learning, 2011
A generational shift is occurring in training environments worldwide, a shift that promises to bring with it a dramatic and long-lasting impact. Just as years ago, those of the Baby Boomer generation passed the torch to Generation X, today the process is starting anew with Generation X and those who have come to be known as the Millennials.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Training Methods, Generational Differences, Training
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Poell, Rob F.; Yorks, Lyle; Marsick, Victoria J. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2009
The authors describe research aimed at developing a more comprehensive framework for project-based learning in work contexts. This grows out of a cross-cultural reanalysis of data from two previous studies using two different frameworks: actor-centered learning network theory and a critical pragmatist lens on action reflection learning. Findings…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Work Environment, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Van Eekelen, I. M.; Boshuizen, H. P. A.; Vermunt, J. D. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2005
Various studies have focused on self-regulated student learning. However, little attention has been given to the self-regulation processes in teacher learning. In this study, we focus on the work-related learning processes reported by experienced higher education teachers. The aim of this study was to discover whether teachers actively…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Higher Education, College Faculty, Learning Processes
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Merx-Chermin, Mireille; Nijhof, Wim, J. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the factors that influence the innovative power of organisations. The concept of innovation and innovative power was examined by analysing the relationship between the construct of the learning organisation, knowledge organisation and innovative organisation, and has resulted…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Innovation, Foreign Countries, Performance Factors
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This document contains three papers on informal learning and human resource development. "Workplace Learning Reviewed: Confronting the Rhetoric with Empirical Research" (Rob F. Poell, Ferd J. Van der Krogt) discusses the considerable discrepancy between theory on workplace learning and actual workplace learning-related developments in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Adult Learning, Case Studies