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Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
Along with changing industry market conditions and emerging technologies, federal investments in new energy and transportation infrastructure targeted at limiting the effects of climate change are predicted to dramatically reshape the workforce. In the next ten years, as many as 9 million high-quality jobs will be created to implement new energy…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Labor Force Development, Retraining
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Zoyke, Andrea – International Journal for Business Education, 2014
There are many calls for personalized learning (instruction) (in Germany 'Individuelle Förderung'), especially for persons with special educational needs in the transition to vocational training or retraining. Teachers can find a variety of concepts and instruments to construct personalized learning. The challenge is to combine and to connect…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Adult Vocational Education, Vocational Rehabilitation, Retraining
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Bell, Katrina M.; Meadows, Elizabeth A. – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2013
This study is a preliminary investigation of the efficacy of a brief intervention for recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) via a multiple baseline across subjects design. The intervention consisted of a single 1-hour session including psychoeducation and coaching of breathing retraining; the length, duration, and content of the intervention were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Retraining, Curriculum Development, Pain
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1986
This booklet describes a project centered at Tile Hill College in Coventry (England) that set out to provide relevant courses for unemployed adults. An introduction outlines project aims and an action plan. Section II on the context of the project is concerned with the sector forecasts for industry, the economic environment, and unemployment. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Curriculum Development, Electronics
Nickerson, Bruce E. – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1978
The author presents a methodology to identify new and emerging occupations for the purpose of appropriate vocational education curriculum development, involving collection of occupational data, development of criteria, and evaluation of occupational data for curriculum development. (MF)
Descriptors: Criteria, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning, Employment Patterns
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Tobin, Harry – Technology Teacher, 1987
A model technology education program, implemented in the Chicago public schools, featured public and private sector cooperation. Successful program elements included museum choice programs, teacher retraining and mini-conventions, and summer orientation sessions. (CH)
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Curriculum Development, Industrial Arts, Inservice Education
Ansell, Sherman D. – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1978
Examines the potential changes that dislocations in energy sources and uses would have on vocational training in Wisconsin and the new energy technologies which will require curriculum change or development. (MF)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Employment Potential
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Baldwin, Roger G. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1987
Before committing itself to new career programs, a higher education institution should answer some basic questions about their implications for faculty development. Early programs to help faculty adjust to the new career curricula will lead to their more successful integration on campus. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Hull, Daniel M.; Pedrotti, Leno S. – VocEd, 1983
Many postsecondary technical education programs are facing obsolescence and need more than another course or piece of equipment to be effective. Educational institutions must restructure their programs, redesign their laboratories, and retrain their faculty. The business and industrial community is the direct beneficiary of a strong vocational…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Physics, Postsecondary Education, Program Improvement
Ross, Paul C. – Training, 1979
Describes a curriculum management approach to training that ties together employee career development, current performance needs, and future business plans in order to provide a coherent planning system for the conduct of industrial training. (LRA)
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
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Askov, Eunice N. – Adult Learning, 1992
Points out that, to keep the work force up to date, business, industry, and labor groups are inviting adult basic educators to design and implement retraining programs at the worksite. Provides suggestion for designing custom-made basic skills instruction using work-related materials. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Blum, Albert A. – Training and Development Journal, 1971
The article deals with the efforts of nine different countries to overcome the problems of job obsolescence due to automation and the education and training of youth to fit the needs of the times. (EK)
Descriptors: Community Role, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, On the Job Training
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Change, 1982
In an interview with Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, some of his concerns and observations about the high school-college connection are described. The education and reeducation of teachers, curriculum, and flexibility of college admission are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Admission, College Preparation, College School Cooperation
Harvey, Edward B.; McShane, Steven L. – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1980
The Canadian educational system has tended to reinforce the idea that white-collar jobs are more desirable than blue-collar jobs. A study examined various organizational factors which have implications for industrial training, and indicated that the benefits of industrial training and employment in the skilled trades should be more widely…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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Zappala, John – Michigan Community College Journal: Research & Practice, 1996
Discusses a study to determine the extent that Michigan Adult Education Alternative Training (AEAT) providers used selected concepts of systematic planning in developing training programs. Finds that 55.6% of 65 responding AEAT planners utilized the concepts. Suggests that planners should also incorporate political and practical considerations.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning
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