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Zhao, Fan; Fang, Xiaowen – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2023
Aim/Purpose: This study attempts to apply gamification to support the training of small business owners in business web development from a work-based learning perspective. Background: Web design describes the process of creating a website and embodies many different aspects, such as webpage layout, content production, and graphic design. However,…
Descriptors: Ownership, Small Businesses, Workplace Learning, Gamification
Artini, Luh Putu; Nilan, Pam – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2014
This article looks at motivations and both formal and informal learning contexts for well-educated young Balinese from poorer areas who enrol in cruise ship training colleges. The major motivations were getting a high income and helping the family. While basic hospitality and tourism skills are acquired, trainees also named other capacities such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitality Occupations, Marine Education, Tourism
Lardinois, Rocio – Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2011
Cedefop's report "Learning while working: success stories on workplace learning in Europe" presents an overview of key trends in adult learning in the workplace. It takes stock of previous research carried out by Cedefop between 2003 and 2010 on key topics for adult learning: governance and the learning regions; social partner roles in…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Adult Students
Macpherson, Allan; Jayawarna, Dilani – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the influence of a range of contingent factors that moderate the approaches to training in manufacturing SMEs. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on a regression analysis of data from a survey of 198 manufacturing SMEs. Findings: The findings suggest that there will be times when formal training…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Training, Personnel Management, Professional Development
Bergman, Terri – 1995
General research and anecdotal reports have confirmed that both technical and basic skills training offer many benefits to companies of all sizes. Company training can improve employee performance, firm productivity, product quality, and company profitability. Training supports "high-performance" work practices such as the following: total quality…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Corporate Education, Job Training
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1999
Although large companies are more apt to provide training than smaller companies are, size is becoming less of a predictor of training than complexity of the environment, degree of market competition, and internal makeup of the company. The increasingly technological nature of the workplace has prompted many small businesses to increase their…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Educational Practices, Educational Trends
Williams, Kristen M.; Felker, Daniel B. – 1993
A project was undertaken to develop a guide to help small business programs select good education and training programs for their staff. An initial step was a review of literature related to adult education and training in small business and training evaluation. The initial plan was to have the guidebook be specific to a given industry or other…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Marlette, Julianne M. – 1981
In 1981, a project was undertaken by Wisconsin's Vocational Technical and Adult Education (VTAE) District 1 to determine the training and development needs of new small businesses and to establish vocational education linkages between Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs and these businesses. The project involved: (1) a survey…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes, Employment Programs
Olcott, Lynn – 1981
This booklet, prepared for the Peace Corps, describes the operation of the Volunteer Rehabilitation Project, a handicraft project for handicapped persons (mostly leprosy patients) in Ethiopia. Along with the project description are step-by-step instructions for carrying out a similar project and a discussion of the principles underlying the…
Descriptors: Craft Workers, Developing Nations, Disabilities, Educational Facilities
Hawke, Geof – 2000
The factors influencing active learning in small enterprises were examined. Data from earlier Australian studies were examined in an attempt to provide a framework that might inform the relationship between educational systems and small enterprises. Special attention was paid to a 1988 study of systematic differences between small businesses that…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Education Work Relationship, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
WorkAmerica, 2000
Increasingly, small and mid-sized businesses are becoming just as focused on work force training as large corporations are. The training being provided by smaller companies is extending beyond nuts-and-bolts instruction into the area of core business skills, such as leading, managing, thinking creatively, and solving problems. States are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Community Colleges, Corporate Education
Warmerdam, John; van den Tillaart, Harry – 1997
The opportunities and limitations of a sectoral approach to training research and policy were examined through the commissioning and analysis of reports on trends and issues in five European countries: Belgium; France; Germany; Greece; and the Netherlands. Special attention was paid to the opportunities of sectoral initiatives for small and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Smith, Andrew; Oczkowski, Eddie; Noble, Charles; Macklin, Robert – 2002
The changing nature of the demand for training in Australian enterprises adopting new management practices and the implications of those changes for training providers were examined. More than 3,400 private sector enterprises were surveyed by mail, after which follow-up telephone interviews were conducted with 80 human resource practitioners from…
Descriptors: Contract Training, Definitions, Delivery Systems, Educational Demand
Kilpatrick, Sue; Crowley, Suzanne – 1999
Owners or managers of 181 Australian businesses employing fewer than 20 people in the construction, manufacturing, property and business services, and retail industries in 3 metropolitan and 3 nonmetropolitan locations were interviewed by telephone to identify how they used training to enhance their small business's success. Of those surveyed,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Educational Attitudes
van den Tillaart, Harry; van den Berg, Sjaak; Warmerdam, John – 1998
Work and learning in microenterprises in the car repair industries of four European Community (EC) countries were examined through 21 case studies of firms with 10 or fewer employees (6 firms in Ireland and 5 each in Greece, the Netherlands, and Spain). Structured interviews were conducted with each firm's owner and 60 motor vehicle mechanics at…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education
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