Source:ASCILITE 2009 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
(2009)
This paper presents the results of a pilot study of a project that uses 3D-virtual world technologies, namely Second Life, as a platform for learning simulations through role plays with the intent to improve the development of professional decision making amongst pre- graduate teachers undertaking a…
Source:Towards integration of work and learning: Strategies for connectivity and transformation
(2009)
This chapter discusses individual learning in the workplace in the light of a study of Finnish design engineers' and product developers' learning through their work. The designers' work practices and their learning in the course of these activities are described as perceived by the designers themsel…
Source:International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice
(2009)
Workplaces are important sites for promoting the skill development required to meet goals for increasing the number of workers attaining vocational qualifications. Since the earliest training reforms of the 1990s in Australia, one of the most important outcomes has been the (re)-claiming of the work…
Source:International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice
(2009)
Historically, vocational education and training (VET) has driven economic growth and productivity in industrialised nations. As markets become increasingly global and competitive, governments are increasing pressure on VET systems in Australia, Japan and other industrialised countries to produce mor…
Source:Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training: Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Findings
(2009)
In its current shape senior secondary vocational education has existed since 1996. Before that date, two types of senior secondary education co-existed: the apprenticeship system and senior secondary vocational education organised in schools. The apprenticeship system offered professional training c…
Source:International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice
(2009)
This chapter discusses the perspectives and challenges of professional competencies for the tertiary sector with examples drawn from studies of speech pathology and paramedic university professional degree programmes in Australia. While attempts to describe work performance in terms of competencies …
Source:International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice
(2009)
This chapter reports on two studies conducted in both Hong Kong and Australia. The purpose of these research studies was three-fold: first, to evaluate the secondary business education curriculum; second, to explore its role in both Hong Kong and Australia, in order to determine the future direction…
Source:Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training: Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Findings
(2009)
In Germany, VET is mainly organised according to the 'Dual System', meshing theoretical education at school and practical instruction at the workplace. Dual apprenticeships in Germany exist in nearly all branches of the economy including the professions and parts of the civil service. Every year, ab…
Source:Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America
(2009)
In this boldly interpretive narrative, William McKee Evans tells the story of America's paradox of democracy entangled with a centuries-old system of racial oppression. This racial system of interacting practices and ideas first justified black slavery, then, after the Civil War, other forms of coer…
