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Priest, Simon; Gass, Michael; Gillis, Lee – 2000
Most organizations find it difficult to implement change, and only about 10 percent of learning from training and development experiences is actually applied in the workplace. This book advocates facilitation as a means of enhancing change and increasing productivity. Facilitation engages employees by enhancing the processes associated with their…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Experiential Learning, Feedback, Group Dynamics
Marsick, Victoria J.; Watkins, Karen E. – 1999
This book offers advice to facilitators and change agents who wish to build systems-level learning to create knowledge that can be used to gain a competitive advantage. Chapter 1 describes forces driving companies to build, sustain, and effectively use systems-level learning and presents and links a working definition of the learning organization…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning
Sims, Ronald R., Ed.; Sims, Serbrenia J., Ed. – 1995
This volume contains 12 papers on models of different learning styles, instruments to evaluate learning styles, and techniques for assessing individual learning characteristics as well as the future of learning style research and its implications for enhancing learning in higher education institutions. The papers are: "Learning Enhancement in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Style, College Faculty, College Instruction
Hill, Amie; Herman, Richard – 1998
Based on structured interviews with Interlocken students, staff, parents, and alumni, this book presents a historical account of the international coeducational camp, Interlocken, founded in 1961, and its practice and philosophy of experiential education. Section 1 explains the innovative summer-camp/youth-travel mission of Interlocken and its…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Camping, Cultural Exchange, Experiential Learning
Eitington, Julius E. – 1996
This updated and expanded edition provides a number of new concepts and techniques that should prove valuable to the trainer who is interested in involving his/her learners experientially. It primarily cover methods that relate to the delivery of the training. The book's organization reflects group-in-action bias--the more participative,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Education, Case Studies, Experiential Learning
Steinberg, Adria – 1998
This book examines and illustrates the process of transforming school-to-work into real learning for real work. In chapter 1, guidelines are presented for designing project-based learning programs that are both academically rigorous and grounded in community and workplace realities, and the attempts of three very different high schools to develop…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis