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Anvik, Cecilie; Vedeler, Janikke Solstad; Wegener, Charlotte; Slettebø, Åshild; Ødegård, Atle – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the conditions under which learning and innovation occur within nursing homes by focusing on how the dynamics of the distribution and transformation of ideas and knowledge may be viewed as a prerequisite for innovation in both formal, planned learning situations and informal, everyday practices.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Nursing Homes, Innovation, Administrators
Tømte, Cathrine Edelhard; Fossland, Trine; Aamodt, Per Olaf; Degn, Lise – Quality in Higher Education, 2019
This paper explores the digitalisation of teaching and learning understood as external processes, influenced by government and international trends and as internal processes within the institutions, in Denmark and Norway. These are countries with similarities regarding digitalisation and educational systems. In the internal processes, there was…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Leithwood, Kenneth; Azah, Vera N. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2017
This mixed-methods study inquired about characteristics of districts which influence changes in student achievement and how those characteristics are developed. Staff in 49 Ontario districts were surveyed to estimate the status of nine district characteristics on changes in provincial tests of math and language achievement over five years. A…
Descriptors: School Districts, High Achievement, School Effectiveness, Institutional Characteristics
Billett, Stephen – Educational Research Review, 2009
This paper elaborates the role and development of personal epistemologies when learning through and for work. It does this by drawing on explanatory propositions from psychology, sociology and philosophical accounts. The aim here is to go beyond conceptions of epistemological beliefs and to position personal epistemologies as being active,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Work Environment, Staff Development, Education Work Relationship
Haman, Lynne – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2010
Too often the professional development provided for teachers of mathematics is a short-term, one-shot effort. Today's shrinking budgets, increasing class sizes, and growing demands on teachers' time present further challenges. For the past six years, staff development efforts in the author's district have focused on language arts with little…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Learning Processes
Schulz, Melanie; Rosznagel, Christian Stamov – Learning and Instruction, 2010
Informal learning is becoming a standard format in companies' training and development (T&D) activities. It requires a specific learning competence comprising cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational dimensions. In the present study, it was investigated whether learning-competence variables predict success in informal learning. Given the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Self Efficacy, Age Differences, Business
Basic Skills Agency, 2007
In unit 1 we consider practical approaches to: (1) creating an effective learning environment; (2) selecting and using resources; (3) using ICT at different stages in the teaching and learning cycle; and (4) getting away from worksheets. Unit 2 looks at effective working with learning supporters and co-workers. [For related reports, see…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Learning Processes, Educational Environment, Staff Development
Yoon, Seung Won; Song, Ji Hoon; Lim, Doo Hun – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
This integrative literature review synthesizes the concepts and process of organizational knowledge creation with theories of individual learning. The knowledge conversion concept (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995; Nonaka, Toyama, & Byosiere, 2001) is used as the basis of the organizational knowledge creation process, while major learning theories relevant…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Learning Processes

Drejer, Anders – Learning Organization, 2000
Builds a model of competence development based on organizational learning theory. Proposes a typology of competence: a single technology and a few people, interwoven technologies in a larger unit, and complex systems connecting many people and units. Adapts a Johari window model for understanding organizational learning. (Contains 44 references.)…
Descriptors: Competence, Learning Processes, Models, Staff Development

Bhatt, Ganesh D. – Learning Organization, 2000
Discusses the role of information in knowledge creation; distinguishes between individual and organizational knowledge; addresses the importance of an organizational learning culture. Recommends that managers use self-managed teams, understand organizations as socially flexible systems, and analyze knowledge from multiple perspectives. (Contains…
Descriptors: Information Management, Learning Processes, Organizational Development, Staff Development
Basic Skills Agency, 2006
The first in a series of five, module 1 provides everything one will need to run sharply focused, practical staff development training sessions for adult and Post 16 literacy, language and numeracy teachers. Each module addresses aspects of teaching and learning commonly identified as areas in need of improvement and can be used individually or as…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Learning Activities, Numeracy, Training
Swift, Peter E.; Hwang, Alvin – Learning Organization, 2008
Purpose: This paper seeks to present organizational learning processes of knowledge accumulation, articulation, codification and subsequent routine development in a marketing services organization where judgment and rules of thumb were more the norm than codified knowledge and explicit routines. The case illustrates how organizational learning…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Codification, Learning Processes, Leadership

Entwistle, Noel; Walker, Paul – Instructional Science, 2000
Explains a nested hierarchy of conceptions of teaching and suggests a process of expanding awareness among academic staff of the relation between learning and teaching. Presents a case study of one lecturer's changing conceptions and discusses how conceptual change may be encouraged in academic staff. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Staff Development
Monyatsi, P. P. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2006
The development of staff in any organization in order to attain quality results is a sine qua non. The human resource of any organization, including schools and colleges is central to its effectiveness. What matters is the model that is used to enable the development of staff, in this case the development of teachers in secondary schools. This…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Program Effectiveness, Workshops, Learning Processes

Olson, Richard F.; Millgate, Irvine H. – Theory Into Practice, 1972
The objective of this article is to define a model for school staff development that is founded on the principle of relevance. That model is CONSEL or Confrontation-Search Laboratory, originated at Xicom Communications Laboratory. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Institutes (Training Programs), Learning Processes, Models