Technological Applications in Adult and Vocational Education Advancement

Technological Applications in Adult and Vocational Education Advancement

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 487

ISBN13: 9781466620629|ISBN10: 1466620625|EISBN13: 9781466620636

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2062-9

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While adult and vocational education may be viewed as separate, the training and development in education and the workplace is essential to keeping up with the current page of technologies and information. As technologies, individuals, and the workplace continue to advance, adult learning continues to be a forefront to keep up with this constant change of pace.

Technological Applications in Adult and Vocational Education Advancement aims to advance the understanding, practice, and research within career and technical education. This book provides a global view on the education technologies for adult learning from leading scholars, theorists, and practitioners by sharing insight on innovative pedagogies and inspirational thoughts on the fields of adult education, technology, and care and technical education.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Leading Pedagogical Change with Innovative Web Tools and Social Media (pages 1-10)

Catherine McLoughlin

Today, in a globalised, digital world, leadership challenges in the adoption and integration of emerging social software tools to support learning abound. Today’s students, who have grown up in technology saturated environments, have...

Chapter 2

Online Instructors: Andragogical or Pedagogical Teaching? (pages 11-27)

Viktor Wang, Beth Kania-Gosche

This study investigates the andragogical and pedagogical teaching philosophies of online instructors at the California State University, Long Beach in the Spring Semester of 2010. Drawing from reflective adult education theory, this...

Chapter 3

Assuring Quality in Online Course Delivery (pages 28-41)

Julia M. Matuga, Deborah Wooldridge, Sandra Poirier

This paper examines the critical issue of assuring quality online course delivery by examining four key components of online teaching and learning. The topic of course delivery is viewed as a cultural issue that permeates processes...

Chapter 4

Improving Accessibility for Seniors in a Life-long Learning Network: A Usability Study of Learning Websites (pages 42-56)

Xiaoqing Gu, Rui Ding, Shirong Fu

Senior citizens are comparatively vulnerable in accessing learning opportunities offered on the Internet due to usability problems in current web design. In an effort to build a senior-friendly learning web as a part of the Life-long...

Chapter 5

Workplace Incivility in Schools (pages 57-68)

Thomas G. Reio, Stephanie M. Reio

This paper investigates the prevalence of coworker and supervisor incivility in the context of K-12 schools and incivility’s possible link to teachers’ commitment to the school and turnover intent. The data were collected via surveys...

Chapter 6

Literacy Level and Vocational Training for Substance-Using Hispanic Adults (pages 69-81)

Michele M. Wood, Dennis G. Fisher, Grace L. Reynolds, Yesenia Guzman, William C. Pedersen

The Hispanic population has become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. To successfully incorporate this population in adult vocational training, social service, and health programs, it is essential that programs...

Chapter 7

Educational Leadership and Ralph Tyler (pages 82-93)

Viktor Wang, Judith Parker

This article addresses the traditional instructional leadership (characterized with Tyler’s four questions; teachers prescribe a curriculum; learners assume a submissive role of following instructors) in comparison with the...

Chapter 8

Promoting Team Learning in the Classroom (pages 94-105)

Lila Holt, Mary F. Ziegler

The new workplace is a key arena for learning in today’s society. The spiraling demand for knowledge in the workplace has increased interest in learning, especially team learning. Team learning can be viewed from multiple...

Chapter 9

Identifying Predictors of Academic Success for Part-Time Students at Polytechnic Institutes in Malaysia (pages 106-121)

Norhayati Ibrahim, Steven A. Freeman, Mack C. Shelley

A central challenge for higher education today is to understand the diversity and complexity of nontraditional students’ life experiences and how these factors influence their academic success. To better understand these issues, this...

Chapter 10

E-Leadership in the New Century (pages 122-131)

Viktor Wang

This article argues that E-leadership emerged out of technological development among all other major developments in our society. In the virtual environment, leaders are required to lead followers by using different approaches. This...

Chapter 11

A Case Study of an Intervention to Support Ed.D. Students in Dissertation Writing (pages 132-142)

Beth Kania-Gosche, Lynda Leavitt

Dissertation writing is often the most challenging aspect of the doctoral program. In an effort to raise completion rates and lower time-to-degree as well as increase student satisfaction with the program, professors in an Ed.D....

Chapter 12

Vocational Interests and Needs of Unemployed, Low-Education Adults with Severe Substance Abuse Problems in Anchorage, Alaska (pages 143-151)

Mark E. Johnson, Grace Reynolds, Dennis G. Fisher, Colin R. Harbke

Vocational assessment data were collected from 94 low-education adults with severe substance abuse problems not currently in treatment. Participants completed the My Vocational Situation (MVS), Self-Directed Search (SDS), and...

Chapter 13

The Scenario of a Learning Society Model toward Promoting a Positive Paradigm Shift for Communities (pages 152-170)

Suwithida Charungkaittikul

This study uses a prospective qualitative approach. The Ethnographic Delphi Futures Research (EDFR) technique is used to propose a learning society model. The data include a review of peer-reviewed literature, a field study visit and...

Chapter 14

Exploring the Preparedness of Business Education Teacher Candidates for their Internships: The Perspectives of Mentor Teachers (pages 171-185)

Edward C. Fletcher, Kathy Mountjoy, Glenn Bailey

Applying a modified-Delphi technique, this research study sought consensus from business education mentor teachers regarding the top three areas in which business education student teachers were prepared as well as underprepared for...

Chapter 15

Collaborative Online Learning in Non-Formal Education Settings in the Developing World: A Best Practice Framework (pages 186-201)

Stephen Asunka

In the present knowledge economy, individuals, particularly working adults, need to continuously acquire purposeful knowledge and skills so they can better contribute towards addressing society’s ever-changing developmental...

Chapter 16

Information Technology and Fair Use (pages 202-214)

Lesley S. J. Farmer

Intellectual pursuit and the recognition of ideas is a central concept. Copyrights protect the rights of intellectual creators while balancing those rights with the needs for access. As technologies have expanded, and production has...

Chapter 17

Adult Education and Sustainable Learning Outcome of Rural Widows of Central Northern Nigeria (pages 215-231)

Lantana M. Usman

In northern Nigeria, widows’ identities and status are defined within the mores, norms, traditional religions, and legal institutions of the cultures of the community. The ethnic cultural laws are oppressive and retrogressive. The...

Chapter 18

Transformative Learning (pages 232-240)

Viktor Wang, Patricia Cranton

The theory of transformative learning has been explored by different theorists and scholars. However, few scholars have made an attempt to make a comparison between transformative learning and Confucianism or between transformative...

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