Adult education and vocational training in the digital age

Responsibility: Victor C.X. Wang, editor.
Publication: Hershey, Pennsylvania (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033, USA) : IGI Global, [2017]
Physical description: 1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations.

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Creators/Contributors

Contributor: Wang, Victor C. X. editor.; IGI Global, publisher.

Contents/Summary

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Teaching for critical thinking / Stephen Brookfield
Public-private partnership principles applied to industry-school partnership to support technical and vocational education / Hitendra Pillay [and 3 others]
Deep learning and online education as an informal learning process: is there a relationship between deep learning and online education as an informal learning process? / Theresa Neimann, Victor C. X. Wang
Digital technologies as a change agent in problem-based activities: a comparison of online and campus-based PBL in Swedish firefighter training / Robert Holmgren
The demand, content, and entrance criteria of operations management programmes under the context of internationalization: an empirical comparative investigation / Chengbo Wang [and 3 others]
Internet technologies and online learning / Victor C. X. Wang, Theresa Neimann
The serious use of play and metaphor: LEGO® models and labyrinths / Alison James, Stephen Brookfield
The need for imagination and creativity in instructional design / Pat Gibson
In one voice: aspiring and practicing school leaders embrace the need for a more integrated approach to leadership preparation and development / Eleanor Drago-Severson, Patricia Maslin-Ostrowski, Alexander M. Hoffman
Learning physical and digital conviviality through practice stories / Peter Willis
The essence of powerful teaching / Stephen Brookfield --

Influences of gender and computer gaming experience in occupational desktop virtual environments: a cross-case analysis study / Lynna J. Ausburn, Floyd B. Ausburn, Paul J. Kroutter
Workplace incivility and conflict management styles: predicting job performance, organizational commitment, and turnover intent / Thomas G. Reio, Jr., Jeannie Trudel
What Is CTE?: practitioners struggle to define their field in the United States / Edward C. Fletcher Jr., Johanna L. Lasonen, Victor M. Hernandez-Gantes.

Publisher's summary

In order to deliver optimum educational opportunities to learners, higher education institutions must utilize emerging innovations and resources. By doing so, they can begin to develop more student-centric pedagogies. Adult Education and Vocational Training in the Digital Age is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly material on the use of recent technologies to facilitate and optimize classroom environments for adult learners. Highlighting relevant andragogical, organizational, and institutional issues, this book is ideally designed for professionals, educators, upper-level students, administrators, and academics interested in emerging research on digital classrooms.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Subjects

Subjects: Adult education > Computer-assisted instruction.; Vocational education > Computer-assisted instruction.; Critical thinking skills; Gender considerations; Instructional design; Online learning; Problem-based learning; School leadership; Serious games

Bibliographic information

Publication date: 2017
Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Note: Also available in print.
Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN: 9781522509301 electronic; 9781522509295 print; 1522509305 (ebk); 1522509291; 1522509313
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0929-5

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