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Bound, Helen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2011
Planning and implementing teacher professional development is a process of engaging in organisational learning and change. Yet our planning and implementation of professional development is at times a series of one-off sessions and can be quite ad hoc. This paper argues that teacher learning takes place not only through formal sessions but also…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Vocational Education Teachers, Foreign Countries, Work Environment
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Kagaari, James R. K.; Munene, John C.; Ntayi, Joseph Mpeera – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the need for managers of public universities to pay attention to performance management practices and information communication technology (ICT) adoption in order to achieve successful managed performance. Design/methodology/approach: Using a disproportionate stratified purposive approach, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Adoption (Ideas), Public Colleges
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2010
"Trends Shaping Education 2010" brings together evidence showing the effects on education of globalisation, social challenges, changes in the workplace, the transformation of childhood, and ICT. To make the content accessible, each trend is presented on a double page, containing an introduction, two charts with brief descriptive text and a set of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Charts, Foreign Countries, Internet
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Hawkins, Brian L. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2007
In the spring of 2005, the author, the retiring president of EDUCAUSE, was asked to be the keynote speaker at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference. The conference theme was "Winds of Change: Charting the Course for Technology in Challenging Times." What that brought to his mind was the era of the great sailing ships of the eighteenth and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Technology, Educational Trends, Educational Technology
Roberts, Judith M., Ed.; Keough, Erin M., Ed. – 1995
Containing practical applications supported by pertinent theory and analysis, this book is designed for educators navigating the information highway. The 13 chapters are divided into three sections--emerging issues, case studies, and analysis--and are as follows: (1) "Distinctions in Distance: Is Distance Education an Obsolete Term?" (M.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Educational Policy
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Brace-Govan, Jan; Gabbott, Mark – Educational Technology & Society, 2004
Continuing professional education seems to be particularly suited to the online environment with opportunities to communicate anywhere anytime. This appears to be convenient and time efficient for the busy working professional. The views of practising professionals were sought and form the basis of this paper. Primary care physicians at two…
Descriptors: Physicians, Professional Continuing Education, Information Technology, Medical Education