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Thitiporn Onsawarng; Prapassorn Wongdee; Pichet Pinit – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: This study addresses the need for a validated tool to assess self-directed learning (SDL) behaviors among Thai operational employees in the petrochemical industry. Understanding SDL capabilities is essential for effective human resource development, given the complexity of plant operations and the need for continuous skill enhancement.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Independent Study, Work Environment
van der Baan, Niels; Raemdonck, Isabel; Bastiaens, Ellen; Beausaert, Simon – International Journal of Training and Development, 2022
Employability, defined as a set of competences that allow an individual to create and maintain a job, is pivotal for both organizations and employees. Organizations with an employable workforce remain competitive and individuals who are employable experience better career development. The present study investigates self-directed learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Independent Study, Expertise
David Porter; Robin Cox; Vivian Forssman – OTESSA Journal, 2023
Capacity building for advancing climate-change leadership has become a critical workforce development requirement for both professionals and front-line workers. As the World Economic Forum Jobs 2020 report noted, there is an increasing need to provide short-timeframe opportunities for reskilling and upskilling that will keep step with the…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Open Educational Resources, Skill Development, Continuing Education
Ansari, Fazel; Hold, Philipp; Mayrhofer, Walter; Schlund, Sebastian; Sihn, Wilfried – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
This paper explores the concept of mutual (reciprocal) learning as an enabler of the emergence of a collective human-machine intelligence across a smart factory. The interlinking of digital profiles of humans and machines permits the identification and measurement of learning outcomes through participating in and performing of (shared) tasks. To…
Descriptors: Measurement, Identification, Outcomes of Education, Artificial Intelligence
Mentor, Dominic, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Mobile learning is an educational strategy that uses mobile technologies in order to promote and enable learning. Mobile learning also encompasses efforts to support broad educational goals across numerous fields as it caters to the effective administration of learning systems and more improved communication between educational institutions,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices, Experiential Learning, Cooking Instruction
Rontu, Heidi; Tuomi, Ulla-Kristiina – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
The role of research in university institutions whose primary task is to provide teaching remains ambiguous and controversial. In principle, all university teaching is based on pertinent research. However, for some university units, such as language centres, the basic tasks, and consequently their funding, are very often defined in a manner which…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Universities
Cho, Insik J.; Ellinger, Andrea D.; Hezlett, Sarah A. – Online Submission, 2005
The concept of self-directed learning has become increasingly important in educational and work organizations as a result of trends that require learners to become more responsible for their own learning to remain highly skilled and knowledgeable in a competitive marketplace. To assess self-directedness in the Korean context, a relatively new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Independent Study
Yoshio, Jiro – 1997
An improved educational infrastructure must be developed in East and Southeast Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries in order to accommodate the surge of economic growth and advanced technology. The increased need for highly educated and skilled technicians can be met through a system of lifelong learning. The need for borderless…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Economic Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
1999
This document contains four symposium papers on workplace learning issues. "The Changing Role of Training Consultants in Organizing Work-related Learning" (Rob F. Poell, Geoff E. Chivers) draws on interviews with training consultants in 19 different organizations to describe how their role is changing in response to the trend toward…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Consultants
Baskett, H. K. Morris – 1993
A study to explore organizational conditions that facilitate workplace learning involved 35 resource development consultants in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and line staff from 22 organizations in a 9-hour participatory research workshop using Appreciative Inquiry--a technology emphasizing the positive or "life-giving" forces which…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Felstead, Alan; Green, Francis; Mayhew, Ken – 1997
Despite the prominence of work-based training in British national policy debate, published statistics fail to give solid data on training volume or quality. The Labor Force Survey, commonly used to give a picture of increasing training, shows proportions of training over any 4-week period rose from 10.8 percent in 1985 to 15.2 percent in 1994.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Quality, Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Vocational Training, 1990
The eight articles in this theme issue of CEDEFOP's twice-yearly multi-lingual bulletin focus on continuing education to maintain and upgrade the workforce. "Force--The Community's Action Programme for the Continuing Training in the 1990s" describes the objectives of this new program to improve the skill levels of the European…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Developed Nations, Educational Development
1997
This document contains four papers from a symposium on career issues in organizations. "Learning During Downsizing: Stories from the Survivors" (Sharon J. Confessore) describes a study to demonstrate that survivors of corporate downsizings undertake learning activities and use many resources to accomplish the learning tasks.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Development, Continuing Education, Corporate Education
2000
Three presentations are provided from Symposium 18, Instructional Technology, of the Academy of Human Resource Development (HRD) 2000 Conference Proceedings. "Strategies for Facilitating Interaction When Using Technology-Mediated Training Methods [TMTM]" (Jeffrey S. Lewis, Gary D. Geroy, Orlando Griego) focuses on differences between…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developing Nations, Distance Education
Mitchell, Laura; Livingstone, D. W. – 2002
The informal learning practices of bank branch workers were examined in a study of a major Canadian bank. The study included ethnographic fieldwork and secondary analysis of a national survey of branch workers' learning practices during the introduction of a new financial services software system. Activity theory was used to examine workers'…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Banking, Data Analysis
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