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Evaluating Academic Workplaces: The Hyper-Expansive Environment Experienced by University Lecturers in Professional Fields
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Boyd, Pete; Smith, Caroline; Ilhan Beyaztas, Dilek – International Journal for Academic Development, 2015
Academic developers need to understand the situated workplaces of the academic tribes they are supporting. This study proposes the use of the expansive--restrictive workplace learning environment continuum as a tool for evaluation of academic workplaces. The tool is critically appraised through its application to the analysis of workplace…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Conditions, College Faculty, Nursing Education
Conceptions of Assessment When the Teaching Context and Learner Population Matter: Compulsory School versus Non-Compulsory Adult Education Contexts
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Remesal, Ana; Brown, Gavin T. L. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2015
This paper presents results of a study on teachers' conceptions of assessment carried out on a sample of 493 teachers of Spanish as foreign language from all over the world. At the moment of data collection, the participants were members of an international online teacher community and were teaching at different professional contexts: basic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Communities of Practice
Context Becomes Content: Sensor Data for Computer-Supported Reflective Learning
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Muller, Lars; Divitini, Monica; Mora, Simone; Rivera-Pelayo, Veronica; Stork, Wilhelm – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2015
Wearable devices and ambient sensors can monitor a growing number of aspects of daily life and work. We propose to use this context data as content for learning applications in workplace settings to enable employees to reflect on experiences from their work. Learning by reflection is essential for today's dynamic work environments, as employees…
Descriptors: Electronic Equipment, Reflection, Work Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction
Accreditation of Experiential Learning at Doctoral Level
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Armsby, Pauline – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to outline some of the issues related to enabling the accreditation of prior experiential learning (APEL) in doctoral level awards, and illustrate the effects for candidates, others involved in the process and higher education (HE). Design/methodology/approach: The paper is a mainly qualitative evaluation…
Descriptors: Evidence, Focus Groups, Doctoral Programs, Prior Learning
A Comparison of the Practices Used by Human Resource Development Professionals to Evaluate Web-Based and Classroom-Based Training Programs within Seven Korean Companies
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Kong, Younghee Jessie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of the study was to compare the practices used by HRD professionals to evaluate web-based and classroom-based training programs within seven Korean companies. This study used four components of evaluation to examine how HRD professionals evaluated web-based and classroom-based training programs in their organizations and compared the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Online Courses, Input Output Analysis
Stakeholders Analysis
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Delrio, Claudio; Ami, Zvi Ben; de Groot, Reuma; Drachmann, Raul; Ilomaki, Liisa – Online Submission, 2008
The aim of this report is, first of all, to present the KP-Lab approach toward stakeholders in the wider framework of European policies. Secondly, the KP-Lab definition of stakeholders and the strategy to address different stakeholders needs, concerns and expectations is presented in the following paragraphs. The second chapter presents concrete…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Stakeholders, Educational Policy