Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Adult & Continuing Education

This text reviews the lessons to be learned from trying to integrate distance learning strategies with established, face-to-face teaching methods. It draws on real, practical examples from education, commerce and industry. The book aims to help readers think about support and delivery of learning and addresses the following questions: is there evidence that distance learning can enrich and enhance the cost-effectiveness of more traditional programmes of teaching and training?; what options do companies and educational organizations have in fostering the development and implementation of such...

Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Perspectives on Online Technologies and Outcomes provides a comprehensive framework of trends and issues related to adult learning.

Transformative Learning and Online Education: Aesthetics, Dimensions and Concepts provides an understanding and comprehension of aesthetics and its importance in transformative online learning. Using frameworks and cases, this reference attempts to construct a more complete understanding of how the art of learning is considered and knowledge is transferred from the cyber to the real world.

E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning: Next Generation Environments provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art technologies for e-learning and lifelong learning, examining theoretical approaches, models, architectures, systems and applications. It addresses critical issues in the field, providing readers with insight on the various stages of the technological life cycle, as well as applications in real world settings. As a one-stop reference, this book provides a holistic view of the various issues in the area of advanced technologies for lifelong learning ranging...

This book examines the difficult and wide-ranging issues relating to how we understand our environment, our place in it, and how we choose to act.

This comprehensive text provides an overview of these developing key issues, illustrating how - through schooling, higher education, professional training and development, and awareness-raising - people can bring about change, as well as engaging in debate and critique of issues. The book builds on existing work across a number of fields, as well as on original international research, in order to model the complexity of the problems, the...

With a radically new perspective on reading, writing and mathematics for adults, this refreshing and challenging book shows how teachers and curriculum developers have much to gain from understanding the role of literacy in learners' lives, bringing in their families, social networks and jobs. Looking at the practicalities of how teachers and students can work with social practice in mind, Adult Literacy as Social Practice is particularly focused on:

* how a social theory of literacy and numeracy compares with other theoretical perspectives
* how to analyze reading and...

Through its unique theoretical framework - a cultural understanding of teaching and learning - this book develops a new way of understanding educational improvement, one which focuses on the formation and transformation of the practices through which students learn. Based on detailed ethnographic research of seventeen learning sites in further education colleges, this book generates a unique insight into a wide variety of practices of teaching and learning. Illustrated by case studies, it is structured around three key questions:

• what do learning cultures in FE look like and...

"This book investigates some of the primary technologies being used in educational settings and how a less structured and more open learning environment can effectively motivate students in their studies"--

Fully updated with important new theory and practical material, this second edition of Learning Journals offers guidance on keeping and using journals and gives step-by-step advice on integrating journal writing on taught courses, in training and professional development and in supporting personal development planning (PDP) activities. Key topics covered include:

• the nature of learning journals and how we learn from them
• the broad range of uses of learning journals, including portfolios and personal and professional development
• the depth and...

Presents a range of research perspectives on the education of inmates in correctional facilities. Highlighting a range of international discussions on topics such as rehabilitation programs, vocational training, and curriculum development, this book is designed for educators, professionals, academics, students, and practitioners interested in emerging developments in prison education programs.

This book has three main areas of focus. The first area of focus is the historical background to the place of 'teachers' who work in Western Australian Technical and Further Education (TAFE) colleges and their large Vocational Education and Training (VET) institutional counterparts. The second area of focus is the contemporary functions of these personnel, who have responsibility for providing a diverse range of training services to meet changing community, industry and individual needs. The third area of focus is the contemporary concerns of these personnel.

Presents the latest literature on optimizing the implementation of curriculum development and instructional design strategies for technical and vocational education. This volume features innovative coverage across a range of relevant topics, such as curriculum deficiency, teacher competencies, and accessible learning.

This volume is about the education of gender and sexualities, which is to say it explores how gender and sexuality identities and differences get constructed through the process of education and schooling. Wittingly or not, educational institutions and educators play an important role in normalizing gender and sexuality differences by disciplining, regulating, and producing differences in ways that are intelligible within the dominant or hegemonic culture. To make gender and sexuality identities and differences intelligible through education is to understand them through the logic of...