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Dromey, Joe – Learning and Work Institute, 2020
This report explores the links between trade unions and workplace training, and the potential benefits of social partnership in the skills system. The UK is relatively unusual in having no formal role for trade unions in the training system. In most advanced economies, trade unions and employers work alongside government in shaping the skills…
Descriptors: Unions, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
Lennon, Marylou; Kirsch, Irwin; Von Davier, Matthias; Wagner, Michael; Yamamoto, Kentaro – Educational Testing Service, 2003
This report presents the findings of a study conducted to explore the feasibility of developing and delivering an assessment of information and communication technology (ICT) literacy for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The study was conducted at the request of an expert panel convened by Network A and was funded in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feasibility Studies, Program Development, Delivery Systems
Daigle, Stephen L.; Jarmon, Carolyn G. – Educom Review, 1997
The goal of a university's human infrastructure is to make the faculty self-sufficient, life-long learners. Criteria for establishing a baseline faculty development program for technology include scaleability, functionality, sustainability, integration of existing resources, information competence, and access. Design and implementation principles…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Criteria, Faculty Development, Higher Education
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Burke, John J. – Research Strategies, 1996
Describes efforts by Fairmont State College (West Virginia) librarians to use electronic mail and a listserv to instruct registrants in a multipart Internet seminar. The development, implementation, and subsequent evaluation of the program are discussed, along with the advantages and disadvantages of computer-mediated communication as the sole…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Electronic Mail
Faison, Christy L. – Educational Technology, 1996
The K-12 and higher education communities have already voiced the need for technologically literate teachers. Standards movements and licensing agencies are stressing the importance of technology skills for beginning teachers and legislation is being passed which provides the impetus for change. Teacher preparation programs must have goals for…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Simpson, Janet – 2001
The Douglas Mawson Institute (DMI) of TAFE (technical and further education), which operates more than four campuses in Australia with a diverse student body numbering approximately 17,000 (78 percent studying part-time), has initiated strategies to support the transformation to an e-learning organization. Major elements in the change model are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Curriculum, Computer Oriented Programs, Delivery Systems