Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Adult & Continuing Education

"The Gates Unbarred" traces the evolution of University Extension at Harvard from the Lyceum movement in Boston to its creation by the newly appointed president A. Lawrence Lowell in 1910. For a century University Extension has provided community access to Harvard, including the opportunity for women and men to earn a degree.

In its storied history, University Extension played a pioneering role in American continuing higher education: initiating educational radio courses with Harvard professors in the late 1940s, followed by collegiate television courses for credit in the 1950s, and...

In this book, internationally respected scholars from the disciplines of educational science, business administration and psychology thoroughly discuss practice-related questions on learning transfer in organizations. Readers will learn solid concepts for securing and evaluating learning transfer.
This volume offers new insights about learning transfer in organizations and their implications for both research and practice. It examines the actual state in practice and provides the foundation for improvements in the design and evaluation of further training measures that are conducive to...

Unter welchen Bedingungen gelingt gesundes und motiviertes Arbeiten uber eine verlangerte Lebensarbeitszeit hinweg? Wie kann konstruktiv mit demografischen Konfliktfeldern im Betrieb umgegangen werden? Diesen und anderen Fragen widmen sich die Autoren auf der Basis wissenschaftlicher Forschung und systemischer Beratungspraxis. Dem Leser verspricht das Buch eine Landkarte der Herausforderungen des demografischen Wandels zur Handlungsreflexion, aber auch Losungsvorschlage fur die betriebliche Praxis und Impulse fur die Gestaltung der eigenen Berufsbiografie.

The way teachers shape and handle their own feelings and those of their learners is central to the success of learning. Now in its second edition, Teaching with Emotional Intelligence shows how to manage this influential yet neglected area of learning and teaching. This practical book looks at how lecturers and teachers can develop and use their emotional intelligence to enhance their teaching and their students' learning.

Taking the reader step-by-step through the learning process and looking at the relationship from the perspective of both the teacher and the...