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Piattoeva, Nelli; Vasileva, Nadezhda – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
Nationwide large-scale assessments (NLSA)--an example of cross-border policy mobility--manifest a proliferating means of governing formal schooling. In the Russian context, NLSA takes the form of a compulsory graduation examination called the Unified State Examinations (USE). In this article, we explore how a mobile policy instrument of the NLSA…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Performance Technology, Governance
Kvetan, Vladimir, Ed. – Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2014
Reliable and consistent time series are essential to any kind of economic forecasting. Skills forecasting needs to combine data from national accounts and labour force surveys, with the pan-European dimension of Cedefop's skills supply and demand forecasts, relying on different international classification standards. Sectoral classification (NACE)…
Descriptors: Coping, Classification, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Boyce, Darryl K. – Facilities Manager, 2012
Although sustainability best practices for buildings are generally well understood, campuses face unique challenges because they are developed to support a diverse community with a variety of facilities. From academic facilities and labs to residences and sports facilities, all operate under one organizational umbrella. This can make it difficult…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Databases, Sustainability, Database Management Systems
Mukerjee, Sheila – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
This paper presents a practitioner's view on student system implementations in the Australian university sector. A student information system is a core system of any university and integral to its operations and services to students. These systems are constantly on the list of major projects and at any point in time, a university is either…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Information Systems, Program Implementation, Change Strategies
Kim, Min Kyu – Educational Technology, 2010
This article discusses an effort to improve training performance in a large corporate conglomerate in South Korea. In particular, focus is placed on a new instructional design (ID) model named the Cogwheel ID model. The cogwheel metaphor is used to illustrate the integrated processes within complex training organizations, including organizational,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Foreign Countries, Models, Needs Assessment
Bailey, Kieren – Computers in Libraries, 2011
Two of the most time-consuming jobs in the library are taking inventory and keeping track of in-house uses of library material. Librarians have long been searching for more efficient solution for these two activities. New technology can be the answer to creating efficiency for libraries. In fact, if one is a SirsiDynix library, there is an easy…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries, Library Services
Freifeld, Lorri – Training, 2011
Innovation has been part of The Economical Insurance Group (TEIG) throughout its 140-year history--its first insurance policy was written on a barn in Berlin, Ontario. Today, the company continues to pursue innovation through its leaders, utilizing a variety of programs to develop the talent needed to guide the 2,500-employee organization through…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Outcomes of Education, Innovation, Leadership Effectiveness
Bloem, Michiel; Vermei, Arnoud – Performance Improvement, 2009
The work of Geary A. Rummler changed the way we think and act as performance professionals. Over the past 15 years, we have applied his tools and models in performance improvement projects in a variety of industries. Similar to the pioneers of our field 40 years ago, we were driven by curiosity when we took Rummler's work to the unusual…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Athletics, Performance Technology, Foreign Countries
Errington, Edward Peter – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2011
A recent UK survey found many graduates unprepared for employment while employers placed greater value on transferable, employability skills rather than on specific ones. Increased student entry into professional-oriented programs, and subsequent pressures on work placements, have educators looking to alternative ways of providing safe,…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Work Experience, Professional Development, Education Work Relationship
Kash, Sheri; Dessinger, Joan Conway – Performance Improvement, 2010
Paulo Freire argued that learning should be conversational, accessible, and centered on the experience of the participants. Freirean theory remains strong in adult education and has implications for human performance technology applications in such areas as online learning in terms of design, accessibility, and content, as well as performance…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Performance Technology, Educational Improvement
Styliaras, Georgios – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2009
This paper presents a framework that supports an educational presentation of a museum on fixed information and pure educational stations through multimedia. Museum curators are offered a wizard-like procedure through which they can structure and populate the content to be presented, associate the content to predefined application types that…
Descriptors: Museums, Foreign Countries, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials
Bretherton, Tanya – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
The early childhood education and care industry in Australia is undergoing a shift in philosophy. Changes in policy are driving the industry towards a combined early childhood education and care focus, away from one on child care only. This move has implications for the skilling of the child care workforce. This research overview describes the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Child Care
Cobb, Chris – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012
Most UK universities can trace their current management information systems back to significant investments made in the 1990s, largely fuelled by concerns about the millenium bug and a change from character interfaces to graphical user interfaces following the introduction of the personal computer. It was during this period that institutions also…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Foreign Countries, Computer Interfaces, Technology Uses in Education
Levy, Frank – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2010
This paper places the competencies to be measured by the OECD's Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in the context of the technological developments which are reshaping the nature of the workplace and work in the 21st century. The largest technological force currently shaping work is the computer. Computers are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Technological Advancement, Influence of Technology
Gerson, Richard F.; Gerson, Robbie G. – Performance Improvement, 2008
Human performance technology (HPT) is an area of professional practice most often found in the business world rather than in education. As adjunct professors at several universities, we have incorporated the principles of HPT into our classes. This article describes some of the courses where we have used aspects and models of HPT to teach students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Technology, Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty