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Direct linkMiranda Lai; Erika Gonzalez – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
Quality interpreting in courts and tribunals requires high competence in language and contextual knowledge, as well as interactional management and ethical reasoning skills. But a cohort of the interpreting workforce in Australia -- particularly those from the so-called "new and emerging" language backgrounds -- has been disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Mentors, Translation, Professional Personnel, National Standards
Bohonos, Jeremy; Chuma, Phenious; Lutomia, Anne N.; Henderson, Eboni W.; Pittendrigh, Barry Robert; Bello-Bravo, Julia – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2022
This paper reports on a case study that explores how the integrative model of program planning can be applied to better understand the process of mobile learning efforts in diverse African contexts. The authors discuss how, Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO), a Purdue University-based program, creates educational videos accessible in…
Descriptors: Program Development, Animation, Video Technology, International Cooperation
Download full textAnsari, 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
Porta, Carolyn M.; Mann, Erin M.; Amiri, Rohina; Avery, Melissa D.; Azim, Sheba; Conway-Klaassen, Janice M.; Golzareh, Parvin; Joya, Mahdawi; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Nejabi, Mohammad Bashir; Olejniczak, Megan; Radhakrishnan, Raghu; Tengera, Olive; Thomas, Manuel S.; Weinkauf, Julia L.; Wiesner, Stephen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite ongoing insecurity, Afghanistan has demonstrated improvement in health outcomes. Reasons for this success include a strategic public-private health service delivery model and investment in Afghan health care workforce development. Afghan universities have the primary responsibility for ensuring that an adequate health care workforce is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Health, Delivery Systems, Labor Force Development
Davidson, Paul; Tsakissiris, Jane; Guo, Yuanyuan – Journal of Learning Design, 2017
This paper explores the implications for learning design in HRM education in the 21st century. An open systems perspective is used to argue the importance of establishing productive relationships between academia, professional associations, regulators and industry (resource inputs) to support the creation of optimal learning environments (the…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Comparative Education, Human Resources, Labor Force Development
Elsey, Barry; Omarova, Amina; Grill, Ronald – International Journal of Training Research, 2016
The research provides a selective report on the learning experiences covering a whole year of study for a double-degree Master's programme by a cohort of early-career Indonesians. They were undertaking the second half of the programme at The University of Adelaide in South Australia, and for all 18 students it was their first taste of learning in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Experience, Government Employees, Masters Programs
Owusu-Mensah, Francis; Anyan, Jerry Addison; Denkyi, Charles – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Staff development plays a crucial role in Open and Distance learning programmes because most of the staff working on these programmes are products of the conventional face to face system. Lack of proper training of staff in ODL can lead to high dropout rate among distance learners. The purpose of this study was to investigate staff development…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Open Universities, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development
Marcus, Jon – Lumina Foundation, 2020
Intermediaries--also referred to as bridge builders, boundary spanners, conveners, and other names--fill the critical role of connecting all the parties in the system to empower people with the skills required in the labor force. Those parties generally include employers, educators, workers, and prospective workers. Within these categories may…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Labor Force Development, Job Skills, Public Agencies
Amazan, Rose C.; Negin, Joel; Howie, Leanne; Wood, Julian – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2016
With the renewed emphasis on higher education as an agent for development and economic growth, Australia has joined other Western countries in contributing to increasing the intellectual workforce of Africa[1]. While Australia has provided scholarships to Africans for more than three decades, since 2005, the Australian Government has dramatically…
Descriptors: Awards, Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Qualitative Research
Hippach-Schneider, Ute; Weigel, Tanja; Brown, Alan; Gonon, Philipp – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
The German and Swiss economies value skilled work highly and initial vocational education and training (IVET) has been the predominant traditional pathway into such work. However, concerns about a more "knowledge-based society" and the "academic shift in the labour market" are starting to undermine the status associated with…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Bachelors Degrees, Program Descriptions, Comparative Education
Almeida, Rita; Amaral, Nicole; de Felicio, Fabiana – World Bank, 2016
Despite impressive progress in education enrollments in recent decades, Brazil continues to face important obstacles to overall quality and secondary school completion rates that restrict the nation's ability to produce a skilled workforce. Vocational and Technical Education and Training (VET) is a key element in the strategy to more quickly…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Vocational Education, Educational Quality, Educational Attainment
Kettle, Jane – Higher Education Academy, 2013
This publication focuses on national and international policy initiatives to develop a better understanding of work-based learners and the types of flexibility that may well enhance their study especially pedagogically. As part of our five-strand research project "Flexible Pedagogies: preparing for the future" it: (1) highlights the…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Teaching Methods, Employers, Futures (of Society)
Ehlen, Corry; van der Klink, Marcel; Roentgen, Uta; Curfs, Emile; Boshuizen, Henny – European Journal of Training and Development, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test the feasibility of a conceptual model on relations between organisational innovation, knowledge productivity and social capital. It explores processes of knowledge productivity for sustainable innovation and associated HRD implications in knowledge intensive organisations, taking the perspective that…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Sustainability, Semi Structured Interviews, Innovation
Turner, Wendy – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2014
In the UK policies such as the Children's Plan 2008-2020 through to Promoting the Emotional Health of Children and Young People (2010) identify that professionals such as teachers, youth workers, social workers and youth offending specialists, do not have the necessary underpinning knowledge to adequately support children and young people's…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Public Policy, Undergraduate Students
Education Scotland, 2014
This report evaluates college programmes which deliver education and training in computer and digital media technology, rather than in computer usage. The report evaluates current practice and identifies important areas for further development amongst practitioners. It provides case studies of effective practice and sets out recommendations for…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Case Studies, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
