Introduction: Young people face heightened employment pressure, particularly those in the school-to-work transition phase. Although earlier studies have indicated that young people who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET) experience considerable psychological distress, limited attention has been paid to understanding why they are…

Teaching staff compensation forms the largest component of education budgets, averaging 58% of expenditure in public primary and secondary educational institutions across OECD countries. This share has remained broadly stable over time and across levels, despite differences in educational structures and evolving demands. Yet, behind this overall…

Background: Despite being a useful and ubiquitous teaching and learning tool (Clinton & Khan, 2019), the cost of textbooks poses a significant barrier for many community college students (Jenkins et al., 2020). In 2022-23, tuition and fees at public two-year institutions averaged $3,860, while books and supplies averaged $1,460 (Ma &…

There is a divide in educational technology: On one side is the rich world of interactive learning resources produced by companies and researchers, including simulations, games, and quizzes. On the other side is the world of learning resources used in schools, mostly static content, self-made or from textbooks. There, some digital resources are…

Learning Objects (LOs) have long aimed to make digital education scalable and reusable, yet their alignment with constructivist learning remains contested. This study offers a structured comparison of traditional LO design principles and constructivist learning metaphors--acquisition, participation, and knowledge creation--to examine how emerging…

A major challenge for refugees and asylum seekers is social and professional integration. Using constructivist and capability approaches, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 young refugees and asylum seekers enrolled in an integration program in French-speaking Switzerland about their career choices. Following consensual qualitative…

Masculine rationality pervades organizations and organizational theory but remains largely unexplored and or studied by human resource development (HRD) researchers and practitioners. This essay defines rational masculinity and summarizes its origins and effects on women in the workplace. Current literature supports the need for increased…

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of approaches to and insights for impact assessment on open educational resources (OER) in higher education and building on this to sketch a framework for university focussed OER impact assessment. The authors describe the literature on impact assessment in the OER context and the existing…

In these regenerative times prompted by the Anthropocene, Aboriginal voices are situated to draw on ancient wisdom for local learning and to share information across the globe as ecological imperative for planetary wellbeing. In this paper, postqualitative research foregrounds the sentient nature of life as ancestral power and brings the vitality…

Learning paths are curated sequences of resources organized in a way that a learner has all the prerequisite knowledge needed to achieve their learning goals. In this article, we systematically map the techniques and algorithms that are needed to create such learning paths automatically. We focus on open educational resources (OER), though a…

The binary work/leisure continues to be used to categorize many human activities, but falls short for ways of life in which a particular set of values undergirds all activities. This paper discusses regenerative forms of growing and harvesting food -- in particular, permaculture and natural farming -- as values-based practices that blur the…

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the characteristics of learning environments and the related human resource (HR) practices in two Hungarian information technology (IT) companies. The aim of the contribution is to provide an empirical in-depth analysis of how learning environments are being created and managed in knowledge-intensive small-…

Project-Based Learning has been a heavily debated topic in education for several years. The most recent push from multiple education departments highlights the need for a user-friendly online database. Although the Internet is filled with sites that provide many different instructors' options to develop or implement a Project-Based Lesson, there…

Bay View Analytics has been tracking awareness, adoption, use, and attitudes toward open educational resources (OER) in U.S. Higher Education since 2009. Changes observed during that time include: (1) OER Awareness amongst US. Higher Education faculty and administrators went from almost nonexistent in 2009, to 57% "Somewhat Aware,"…

The overarching aim of this dissertation is to expand evidence and theory of adult identity processes in the context of environmental stewardship, as well as to provide knowledge and recommendations to environmental stewardship and environmental education professionals. The intent is to better understand variation in how adult environmental…