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Brown, Barbara Alice; Harte, Jacqui; Warnes, Anne-Marie – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share practice on how two approaches to work-based learning (WBL) are used to develop the knowledge and skills of health care staff with different levels of experience and educational attainment within the Department of Nursing and the Department of Allied Health Professions at a post-1992 university…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Models, Comparative Analysis, Concept Mapping
Broadwell, Martin M. – 1995
This training book is designed to help supervisors give accurate and effective on-the-job training (OJT) to employees under their supervision. Chapter 1 identifies good and bad training and good and bad reasons for training. Chapter 2 examines human learning and three motivators: desire for reward, fear of punishment, and curiosity. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Bureau of Prisons (Dept. of Justice), Washington, DC.
Designed to assist training coordinators in the initial institution familiarization training for new employees in correctional institutions, this manual consists of two parts: this document (Part I), which is the training coordinator's guide, and the training program (Part II - CE 017 287). In a general introduction the advantages of these course…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Correctional Institutions, Course Organization, Entry Workers
Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, Guelph (Ontario). – 1985
These proceedings contain 28 papers (20 in English and 8 in French), including the following: "Beyond Ideology: The Case of the Corporate Classroom" (Zinman); "De quelques dimensions paradoxales de l'education interculturelle" (Ollivier); "Ideology, Indoctrination and the Language of Physics" (Winchester);…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students
Olmstead, Joseph A.; Elder, B. Leon – 1978
A research project was undertaken to provide a foundation for future research on the efficacy of games and simulations for use in training and assessing junior company-grade officers working in administrative, nontactical support, and staff jobs. Based on survey interviews with nineteen incumbents of Finance, Adjutant General, and Quartermaster…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Education, Catalogs, Competency Based Education
McBeath, Clare; Nicholson, Lindsay – 2001
The research methods selected for an evaluation of courses in vocational education and training (VET) teacher education at Curtin University (Western Australia) were examined. The university hired an outside research body from a different TAFE college to conduct the evaluation because Curtin University's courses in postschool teacher education,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Developed Nations
Peters, Robert H., Ed. – 2002
These eight papers are intended to help prepare trainers of mine safety for an expected influx of younger workers as experienced miners retire and acquaint the trainers with strategies they can use to enhance their training effectiveness. "Principles of Adult Learning: Application for Mine Trainers" (Kathleen M. Kowalski, Charles Vaught)…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Age Differences