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BOOTH, ALAN – 1966
RESEARCH ON PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS ATTEMPTED TO EXPLORE HOW PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERS LEARN ABOUT PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO INCREASE THEIR COMPETENCE AND HOW FACTORS RELATED TO THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY LEARN ABOUT THE PROGRAMS INFLUENCE THEIR DECISIONS TO PARTICIPATE. THE CONCEPT OF "DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS" WAS THE FRAMEWORK IN WHICH…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Conferences, Development, Information Dissemination
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de Weerd-Nederhof, Petra C.; Pacitti, Bernice J.; da Silva Gomes, Jorge F.; Pearson, Alan W. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2002
From case studies of organizational learning in research and development companies, learning tools or mechanisms were identified: job rotation, innovation process planning, and product innovation project review. Organizational learning involved parallel rather than linear processes of information acquisition, distribution, and interpretation and…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Information Utilization, Innovation, Learning Processes