Adult Education and Vocational Training in the Digital Age

Adult Education and Vocational Training in the Digital Age
Author: Wang, Victor C.X.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-11-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1522509305

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.

Adult Education and Vocational Training in the Digital Age

Adult Education and Vocational Training in the Digital Age
Author: Victor C. X. Wang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781522509295

"This book is a 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"--

Stagnancy Issues and Change Initiatives for Global Education in the Digital Age

Stagnancy Issues and Change Initiatives for Global Education in the Digital Age
Author: Neimann, Theresa
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2020-09-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799849945

At this juncture in the history and development of education in the digital age, constituents of education systems across the globe are challenged with revising or rediscovering the purpose of educational institutions within societies. Institutions need to retool to include digital games-based and problem-based learning, and education itself must adapt to serve the needs of a diverse student population. Stagnancy Issues and Change Initiatives for Global Education in the Digital Age is a cutting-edge research publication that explores the complex discourse of trends, shifts, and changes happening in the field of education and to understand the implications for teaching, learning, and professional development. The book helps educators understand how to make their pedagogy and andragogy relevant in the framework of constant technological shifts and changes in order to help students thrive in a global economy. Featuring a wide range of topics such as gamification, pedagogy, and intercultural learning, this book is ideal for curriculum designers, academicians, education professionals, researchers, policymakers, and students.

Vocational Education and Training in the Age of Digitization

Vocational Education and Training in the Age of Digitization
Author: Eveline Wuttke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9783847424321

The increasing digitalization of work is associated with accelerated structural changes. This book focuses on the diverse demands placed on teachers, learners, and educational institutions in vocational education and training and provides up-to-date results on learning in the digital age.

Adult Learning in the Digital Age

Adult Learning in the Digital Age
Author: Neil Selwyn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2006-03-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134248962

This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite debate on: why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change in adult learning the drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education what makes a lifelong learner the wider social, economic, cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society. Adult Learning addresses key questions and provides a sound empirical foundation to the existing debate, highlighting the complex realities of the learning society and e-learning rhetoric. It tells the story of those who are excluded from the learning society, and offers a set of strong recommendations for practitioners, policy-makers, and politicians, as well as researchers and students.

Self-direction in Adult Learning

Self-direction in Adult Learning
Author: Ralph G. Brockett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429854358

Originally published in 1991, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive synthesis of developments, issues and practices related to a self-direction in learning. it presents strategies for facilitating self-directed learning as an instructional method and for enhancing learner self-direction as an aspect of adult personality. The idea of self-directed learning is not a new one but has received renewed attention in education circles and has particular significance for the adult education sector.

Effects of Engagement and Resources on Learning Outcomes in Vocational Colleges: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Effects of Engagement and Resources on Learning Outcomes in Vocational Colleges: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Author: Malechwanzi, Joseph Muthiani
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2019-08-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1522592520

A main staple of today’s world that has played a key role in the development of society is education and institutions of higher learning. An ongoing concern, however, has been the lack of access and resources to superior teaching in developing areas of the world. Student engagement and learning environments are just a few elements that play into the success of colleges in areas like the Coast Region of Kenya. Research must be done in understanding the correlation between the tools that these institutions are equipped with and the educational results of their students. Effects of Engagement and Resources on Learning Outcomes in Vocational Colleges: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that discusses the relationship between college resources and students’ learning outcomes as well as contributing factors in promoting quality education and training. Featuring research on topics such as research philosophies, teaching workloads, and student engagement, this book is ideally designed for teachers, deans, researchers, education professionals, administrators, policymakers, government officials, and academicians seeking coverage on the methods of acquiring and maintaining quality education in developing countries.

Teaching and Learning Perspectives on Doctoral Programs in Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Teaching and Learning Perspectives on Doctoral Programs in Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Author: Taylor, P. Mark
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2020-01-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799826589

Doctoral programs are an important feature of academia. They foster professional development among future researchers and academicians. Ensuring the quality of these programs and providing quality mentorship encourages success among program participants and provides a high quality of preparedness for the professional world. Teaching and Learning Perspectives on Doctoral Programs in Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly publication that examines the effectiveness of doctoral programs and strategies for successful academic advisement. The book explores doctoral programs from three perspectives: designing a doctoral program, teaching/mentoring within a doctoral program, and being a student in a doctoral program. Featuring a wide range of topics such as higher education, professional development, and program design, this book is ideal for instructional designers, academicians, academic advisers, administrators, researchers, education professionals, and doctoral students attempting to successfully navigate a doctoral program.

Redefining Post-Traditional Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Redefining Post-Traditional Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Author: Cook-Benjamin, Lorie
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2019-08-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799801462

Post-traditional students are rapidly becoming the majority of the higher education student population. This changing demographic within the higher education landscape increases the demand for flexible learning options accessible to non-traditional learners. Redefining Post-Traditional Learning: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a comprehensive research publication that explores shifting demographics within higher education and offers recommendations to current teaching methodologies. Highlighting a range of topics such as adult learners, pedagogy, and international students, this book provides a theoretical foundation, followed by an intentional dissection of current and best research practices through the lenses of andragogy, student demographics, and technology. It is ideal for teachers, instructional designers, curriculum developers, educational professionals, school administrators, policymakers, academicians, teaching professionals, researchers, and graduate students.

Creating a Framework for Dissertation Preparation: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Creating a Framework for Dissertation Preparation: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Author: Moffett, Noran L.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2019-08-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1522597093

The dissertation processes across various disciplines are considered complicated, tedious, and confusing. The professional community of scholars have contributed monumental works on methodology for specific disciplines; however, none have comprehensively created a framework which addresses these issues. Creating a Framework for Dissertation Preparation: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical research publication that provides relevant lived experiences and frameworks from across various disciplines that support theoretical frameworks and conceptual frameworks of the dissertation process. Featuring a range of topics such as criminal justice, information security, and professional development, this book is ideal for graduate program administrators, deans, department chairs, professionals, dissertation advisors, educators, administrators, academicians, and researchers.