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Peters, Mitchell; Guitert-Catasús, Montse; Romero, Marc – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
As individuals face the challenge of rapidly changing and increasingly diversified study and work environments, online higher education (OHE) has become a mainstream solution for pre-service teachers and working professionals. Both universities and students have had to navigate connected, collaborative and globally networked learning scenarios.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Lifelong Learning, Educational Research
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Roberts-DeGennaro, Maria – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2010
A graduate macro practice foundation course was modified to incorporate curriculum content on the paradigm of evidence-based (informed) practice. The author developed an Evidence-Based Program Planning Model that was used as the framework for teaching this paradigm. Students learned to search and appraise the evidence to answer a practice…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Education, Curriculum, Evidence
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Sloane-Seale, Atlanta; Kops, Bill – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2007
This paper reports on a 2004 follow-up study conducted in partnership with the University of Manitoba Continuing Education Division and local senior's organizations. The partnership was formed in 2002-03 to promote applied research on lifelong learning and older adults, develop new and complement existing educational activities, and explore new…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Models, Well Being, Continuing Education
Ryan, Charles W. – Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, 1978
Guidance personnel must work with other educators to integrate career guidance activities into a developmental K-adult program, rather than presenting them as a series of isolated activities. Examples of cooperative planning through which this end may be realized are presented. (Author/MJB)
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, Developmental Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Gelatt, H. B.; And Others – 1984
This monograph presents five papers which focus on the importance of computers and technology as tools for increasing the amount and the quality of adult counseling, especially in the area of adult learning. The first paper, "Excellence, Equality, and Education: A Future for Counseling," by H. B. Gelatt, discusses the compatibility of the concepts…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults
Law, Song Seng; Low, Sock Hwee – 1997
Based on a literature review of factors that affect the provision of learning opportunities for adults and the experiences of Singapore's Institute of Technical Education (ITE), this paper proposes an empirical framework for developing and implementing lifelong learning systems. Following an introduction, the theoretical foundation for the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Planning, Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries
Weiss, Susan Cortright – 1983
Career Resource Centers (CRCs) are a logical outgrowth of vocational development theory which views career development as a continuous process with a lifelong series of career decisions made at various transition points over time. After starting in high schools, CRCs have spread to all arenas of formal education as well as to community agencies,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Awareness, Career Centers, Career Counseling
Wyly, Jeanie Rountree – 1987
Career development has become very pertinent for adult educators inasmuch as career development programs have been shown to increase effectiveness and efficiency in the field of adult education. Career development programs can vary widely in their content, approach, and philosophy. Various theories have been proposed to explain career development.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Career Development, Educational Needs
Keeney, William, Ed. – 1980
This professional development program is designed to assist managers and professionals in meeting job demands while maintaining individual skill and expertise. This volume contains an introduction to the program, developed by the Prairie View, Kansas, Mental Health Center, and is divided into three sections. The first section describes the program…
Descriptors: Competence, Delivery Systems, Experimental Programs, Independent Study
Liebowitz, Steven E. – 1992
This paper introduces the Pause Model, an innovative means of integrating self-directed learning and continuing professional education. Since the method was developed for professionals such as counselors, educators, and managers who practice in social settings, the paper begins with an explanation of a few of the unique attributes of professional…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Calvert, Steven L. – 1987
The role of colleges in providing lifelong education for alumni is considered. The book traces 75 years of alumni continuing education, with special attention to the years between 1956 and 1966, the beginning of the modern alumni continuing education era. Guidelines are offered for organizing and planning an alumni lifelong education program, and…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Alumni Education, Case Studies, College Graduates
Lehman, George – 1980
This workbook provides a model for mental health professionals to use in developing and implementing a plan for their self-directed job-related learning and skill enhancement. The materials describe techniques for mastering a specific body of knowledge. Questionnaires are provided to help the user organize individual needs and goals; suggestions…
Descriptors: Counselors, Decision Making, Goal Orientation, Lifelong Learning
Vladislavlev, Alexandre P. – 1987
This document presents a conceptual framework for lifelong education in the USSR that is based on interfacing education on the one hand and the scientific and technological revolution on the other to create a system of lifelong education encompassing basic in-school and other less structured, nonformal programs. The impact of the increasing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Miller, Ronald H. – 1979
Due to increased interest in adult learning, the state of transition in which many between ages sixteen and sixty-five find themselves, and the large number of adults lacking requisite job skills, there is an institutional planning emphasis on programs with adults in mind. Planners must be aware of barriers preventing adults' participation in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, Career Change
Smith, Jim; Spurling, Andrea – 1997
Individual lifelong learning accounts (ILLAs) promise to improve the way postschool education and training is financed in the United Kingdom. ILLAs should comprise three distinct functions: save to learn (all individuals would be allowed to save into a special account dedicated to learning); borrow to learn (account holders could borrow for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
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