Context: As part of vocational education and training, learning factories are a new, hands-on learning setting in which students can create products with realistic digital manufacturing equipment while still in vocational school. Given their novelty, learning factories have not yet been studied with respect to whether special classroom management…

This guide provides a blueprint to bridge the gap between the business world and the educational world in your classroom. Whether you are a secondary teacher tasked with teaching business concepts or an industry professional teaching career and technical education (CTE) who is new to the school environment, these ready-to-implement strategies and…

The main objective of this study is to develop a training curriculum that integrates the basic components of digital literacy and the 70-20-10 learning model to enhance the digital literacy abilities of teachers at Nanchang Vocational University. The curriculum mainly includes the following two research questions: (1) What is the current status,…

School districts across the nation are struggling to fill Career and Technical Education (CTE) teaching positions each year (Devier, 2019). To address this demand in Texas, state lawmakers passed legislation to create Districts of Innovation (DOI) in2015 (Texas Education Agency, 2020a). The DOI designation gives school districts more local control…