Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Train the Trainer in Business 2.0
Adult Training and Teaching in Intercultural Contexts - Workbook - Module 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
This new, extended workbook provides state-of-the-art practical tips for situational training and teaching, and it serves as a source of information and companion for those trainers and teachers who want to make their mark. It is also designed as accompanying material for seminars on the subject of...
Algebra Survival Guide
A Conversational Handbook for the Thoroughly Befuddled
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
If there’s one question that many parents would rather not hear when Sophia or Aiden gets home from school, it’s, “Mom, can you help me with my algebra homework?”
And nowadays that question gets asked by younger and younger children because algebraic thinking has been inserted into...
Teaching Intensive and Accelerated Courses
Instruction that Motivates Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In this comprehensive resource, Raymond J. Wlodkowski and Margery B. Ginsberg describe how to meet the challenge of teaching intensive and accelerated courses to nontraditional learners and working adults. By making motivation and cultural relevance essential to instruction, they clearly show what...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
As globalization brings different cultures together, human performance interventions and training solutions may be strained by cultures, policies and other lines of thinking specific to a particular country, region or continent. What is considered a systematic process of discovering and analyzing important...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Severe economic depression and the difficulty to acquire employment with adequate income have significant impact on a nation’s social welfare. The need to provide ample educational opportunities is more imperative than ever, particularly in emerging economies. Technical Education and Vocational Training...
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
My Pedagogic Creed is the "manifesto" of the new schools. By the time a shot was fired in the middle of a swamp pedagogical could not recognize the centrality of the subject in the educational process. Dewey became the theoretical maximum representative of the progressive school. With the...
by Jacqueline Myers
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Do you flounder through your online courses? Do you swear you have given up on online education? Do you want to take online college courses, but are scared you will fail so you stay stuck where you are? This book is for you! Bright, well-meaning students buy into the myth that e-learning is easy and...
Teacher Leadership
The «New» Foundations of Teacher Education A Reader Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Teacher leadership as a dimension of teachers’ work has never been more important. This topic has emerged as a major component of both state and national standards, and as such, it is included in most contemporary teacher education programs. Three decades of research have focused on teacher leadership...
Learning at the Speed of Light
How Online Education Got to Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Learning at the Speed of Light is a collection of stories, articles, and interviews by and with pioneers and visionaries across the United States who shared a belief in greater access to higher education.
This belief that education was a right, not a privilege, put them on a path to create...
Adolescents In The Internet Age, 2nd Edition
Teaching And Learning From Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Teaching adolescents and learning from them is the paradigm elaborated throughout this second edition of Adolescents in the Internet Age. The premise is based upon four assumptions: (1) Adolescents have unique experiences that qualify them as the most credible source on what growing up is like in the...
Adaptive Education
An Inquiry-Based Institution
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The obstacles that prevent the latest educational research reaching the classroom are daunting: few channels to communicate the results of educational research, fewer opportunities for teachers to participate in research themselves, and little support for honing a scientific approach to teaching.
The...
by John R. Hoyle, The AASA Commission on Standards for the Superintendency
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
School superintendents provide leadership and inspiration in school districts across the country. They must be skilled collaborators who can rally resources to support better education for all children living in our multicultural society. Professional standards will help to ensure excellence in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
As the American immigrant population continues to expand, immigrant children and children of immigrants are entering the public school system. To be most effective, new teaching pedagogies must take cultural diversity into account. Cross-Cultural Considerations in the Education of Young Immigrant...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
«Tradition and Innovation in Education» presents a number of articles that deal with topics as varied as outdoor education in Estonian kindergartens, student teacher lesson analysis skills, activities that bridge the theory-practice gap and the identity of academics in a changing university environment....