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Neumann, Marco; O'Murchu, Ina; Breslin, John; Decker, Stefan; Hogan, Deirdre; MacDonaill, Ciaran – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: The motivation for this investigation is to apply social networking features to a semantic network portal, which supports the efforts in enterprise training units to up-skill the employee in the company, and facilitates the creation and reuse of knowledge in online communities. Design/methodology/approach: The paper provides an overview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Semantics, Social Networks
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This July 2, 2004 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "The Provost as Gatekeeper: A Former Provost Offers Advice on Managing the…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Tenure, College Faculty, Plagiarism
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Nage-Sibande, Bogadi – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
Botswana is a landlocked semi-arid country sharing boundaries with Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Setswana and English are the official languages, with English being the most used as the language of government and business transactions. In comparison to most African countries, Botswana is culturally homogenous, and nearly 80% of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Audiovisual Aids
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Kapitzke, Cushla – Policy Futures in Education, 2006
This article uses Nikolas Rose's theory of governmentality to examine ways in which intellectual property is imbricated in a broad spectrum of globalised and globalising discourses. Using the 2004 Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement as a case in point, it shows how discourses of culture, trade, foreign policy, and security intersect and…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Treaties
Cline, Zulmara; Necochea, Juan – Issues in Teacher Education, 2004
Second language learners continue to languish in California public schools in spite of six years of promises following passage of the controversial ballot initiative "English for the Children" (Proposition 227) to fix the education of English Language Learners (ELLs) through English-only instruction. In addition, with the development of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Peer Teaching
Marsh, Carolyn; Casey, Patrick H. – Zero to Three, 2006
The Kids First program at the University of Arkansas Medical School (UAMS) is an outgrowth of the Infant Health and Development Program, a randomized trial of an early intervention approach for premature, low birth weight children, which showed that intensive intervention had significant initial benefits in the cognitive development and behavior…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Child Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Parent Participation
Kim, Youb, Ed.; Risko, Victoria J., Ed.; Compton, Donald L., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed.; Hundley, Melanie K., Ed.; Jimenez, Robert T., Ed.; Leander, Kevin M., Ed.; Rowe, Deborah Wells, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2008
This publication offers the 57th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of two awardees, John E. McEneaney and Scott G. Paris. Included in this Yearbook are the following papers: (1) The Education of African-American Students: Voicing the Debates, Controversies, and Solutions…
Descriptors: African American Students, Recreational Reading, Reading Ability, Scholarship
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Career Technology and Adult Learning. – 1995
This document lists and discusses the development of Maryland's performance specifications for occupational programs. The introduction explains the process used to develop performance standards and specifications for 10 career cluster majors that were identified by a task force of educators and employers as high-demand occupational areas in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Air Conditioning, Allied Health Occupations, Biotechnology
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Career Tech. and Adult Learning. – 1993
During fiscal year 1993, enrollment in secondary and postsecondary vocational education (VE) programs in Maryland totaled 328,792 and 82,464, respectively. Career and technology education was provided to the following: 3,975 secondary disabled individuals, 766 disabled adults and postsecondary students, 7,603 secondary disadvantaged students,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adult Vocational Education, Annual Reports
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center on Education and Training for Employment. – 1995
This document, which is designed for use in developing a tech prep competency profile for the occupation of medical laboratory technician, lists technical competencies and competency builders for 18 units pertinent to the health technologies cluster in general and 8 units specific to the occupation of medical laboratory technician. The following…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Anatomy, Biomedical Equipment, Career Development
Russell, Michele, Ed. – 1993
Papers on aspects of college admission, records, and institutional research functions are: "How To Improve Office Morale" (Victor Swenson); "Staff Meetings: How To Save Hours per Month and Develop Your Staff" (LuAnn Harris, Shelley Olsen); "Selling SPEED/ExPRESS" (Laura Patterson, Thomas Scott); "Advisement and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes
Groff, Warren H. – 1996
This document contains materials about and products of a practicum devoted to creating and sustaining learning communities in the digital era that was conducted by Nova Southeastern University in Winter 1996. First, human resources development programs are discussed as vehicles for creating high-performance learners, workers, and leaders who are…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1996
This book, which is based on the papers presented by the various countries attending an international conference on technology and adult learning, contains 16 papers examining the use of technology in adult learning programs in the context of major institutional and economic change. The following papers are included: "A View from…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Case Studies
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1996
This document summarizes the proceedings of a meeting of the Organisation for Economic Development's Education Committee that focused on the theme of making lifelong learning a reality for all. Part 1 explains the participants' decision to focus on making learning a process extending from early childhood through retirement, describes the main…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Early Childhood Education, Economic Change, Education Work Relationship
O Baoill, Donall P., Ed. – TEANGA: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, 1995
Essays in applied linguistics include: "Meaningful Negotiation: A Study of the Pedagogical Value of Autotutor-An Interactive Video Learning Resource" (John Stephen Byrne); "Medium of Instruction in the L2 Classroom" (Wei Danhua); "The Story of Language Contact and Shift in Ireland: How Unique, How Universal?" (Markku,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Computer Software
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