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Cognitive Apprenticeship as an Instructional Strategy for Solving Corporate Training Challenges
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Chan, Peter; Miller, Ronald; Monroe, Eula – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
Cognitive apprenticeship is a teaching approach proponed by social constructivist educators that scaffolds upon students' "zones of proximal development" in authentic situations. It is an effective approach used by teachers of instructional technology when teaching student practitioners. Nevertheless, implementation of instructional design…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design, Apprenticeships
Training of Training Officers; Introductory Courses. A Report by the Central Training Council's Committee on the Training of Training Officers.
Ministry of Labour, London (England). Central Training Council. – 1966
Recommendations are given for introductory courses for potential and recently appointed training officers in British industry, particulary those of medium size. The course should cover a minimum period of 120 hours in an approved college; it should include sessions on the training function, assessment of training needs, formulating and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Course Descriptions, Industrial Training
Employee Educational Programs: Implications for Industry and Higher Education. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Research Report No. 7.
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Morse, Susanne W. – 1984
Current types of industry-sponsored educational programs, training facilities, and teaching and evaluation methods are described. The history of education and training within the corporate world and the roles of government and unions are traced. Factors that have limited college and industrial cooperation in employee education are also identified.…
Descriptors: College Role, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Government Role
Workforce Training: The Pellissippi State Model.
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Bogaty, Lisa; And Others – 1994
A discussion is provided of the role of community colleges as the primary delivery sources for workforce retraining, using the Pellissippi State Workforce Innovation Program as a case study. The first sections of the paper document the need for worker retraining in the United States, reporting the Department of Labor Secretary's Commission on…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Postsecondary Responses to a Changing Economy.
Charner, Ivan; Rolzinski, Catherine – 1985
Postsecondary education's responses to economic change are discussed, based on 22 projects supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). After identifying common themes of the FIPSE "Education and Economy Alliance" projects, new directions for postsecondary education are considered, along with policy concerns.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Change Strategies, Continuing Education, Cooperative Programs
Empowering Workplace Students: A Practitioner's Challenge.
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Lessard, Richard – 1995
For the past 4 years, Alpena Community College, in Michigan, has participated in the Workplace Partnership Project (WPP), a federally funded grant program designed to provide literacy skills to individuals currently employed but lacking the background to keep pace with the changes of the modern workplace. The process for establishing classes at a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Industrial Training, Job Skills, Labor Force Development