Vocational education technologies and advances in adult learning new concepts /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Wang, Victor C. X.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
• Subjects: Vocational education > Computer-assisted instruction.; Adult education > Computer-assisted instruction.; Educational technology.; Adult learning.; Business education; Career and technical education; Corporate training methods; Fostering an online learning community; Higher education; Lifelong learning; Organizational learning; Technological innovations in CTE and adult education; Training and development; Vocational-industrial education
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"This book provides a global look at educational technologies for adult learners with content drawing from theory, research, practice, individual experience, and offers insight by leading scholars, theorists, and practitioners worldwide"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Spiraling into transformative learning / Patricia Cranton
• 2. Where do I begin?: designing online learning courses which work / Kathleen P. King
• 3. Rethinking the measurement of training and development in the professions: a conceptual model / Doug Lynch ... [et al.]
• 4. From politicized adult education to market oriented adult higher education: how adult education practice in one region is different from another / Victor C.X. Wang and Vivian W. Mott
• 5. Transformative learning in an online environment / Patricia Cranton
• 6. Technology as integral to a new paradigm of adult education / Judith Parker
• 7. Critical components of curriculum development for career and technical education instructors in the United States / Victor C.X. Wang
• 8. Becoming an authentic community college teacher / Patricia Cranton
• 9. Towards more socio-culturally sensitive research and study of workplace e-learning / Karim A. Remtulla
• 10. Diversity in career and technical education on-line classrooms: considering issues of gender, race and age / Mary C. Ware and Mary F. Stuck
• 11. Rethinking the right teaching methods that work for online learners / Victor C.X. Wang and Beth Kania-Gosche
• 12. Merging education and business models to create and sustain transformational change / Susan Isenberg
• 13. Emerging framework for planning and implementation of online programs / Victor M. Hernández-Gantes
• 14. Learning in 2010: instructional challenges for adult career and technical education / Jeff Allen, Pamela Bracey, and Mariya Gavrilova
• 15. The relationship between job training and job satisfaction: a review of literature / Steven W. Schmidt
• 16. From the teachings of Confucius to western influences: how adult education is shaped in Taiwan / Victor C. X. Wang and Lesley Farmer.