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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"On the job learning"”.
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The employers' perspective of vocational education work placement programs
This study is an evaluation of Victoria University’s Workplace Learning Melbourne West (WLMW) work placement service to employers. Local Community Partnership’s (LCPs) like Workplace Learning (WLMW) are funded to coordinate work placements for vocational students and enable them to integrate about …
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Competence development through the lens of structuration - Does age matter in Finnish IT workplaces?
This thesis is about existing employees’ competence development, with a particular focus on middle-aged and late-career employees in the Finnish information technology field. Research on adult education, workforce development and workplace learning has traditionally relied on economic, psychosocial …
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Learning to Teach: A Case Study of Kindergarten Teachers in Hong Kong
"The ""learning-to-teach"" process of the two teachers revealed four elements (the teacher as a person, the school context, the teacher education program, and the socio-cultural context) that interacted with one another to shape their teacher knowledge. They began to learn about teaching long …
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Measuring Learning on the Job
I study on-the-job learning at IT firms. Using detailed online activity data of 144,000 employees matched with 25,000 firms across the globe, I measure the intensity and the direction of technology acquisition, a key input to innovation. A standardized measure shows that employee-entrepreneurs who …
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Principals' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Alternatively Certified Teachers in New Orleans Public Schools
In response to increasing attention to the issues of teacher quality, quantity, and the mandate for highly qualified teachers, alternative approaches to teacher certification have become widespread. Alternative certification allows individuals who typically posses an undergraduate degree in a field …
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Perspectives Of First-Year Internal Medicine Residents On Evaluating Medical Students
<p>As physicians-in-training transition from medical school to residency, they must quickly adapt to new environments, systems, and roles in the clinical education setting. Many are tasked with teaching and evaluating their near-peer medical students as early as the first day of residency training, …
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Learning and skills development in a fragmented industry. The case of the UK television sector.
This thesis discusses how the restructuring of the UK television industry in the 1980s and 1990s has affected learning and skills development in the sector. It is based on 71 semi-structured interviews with television freelancers and key informants in the industry, and a case study of a small …
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Workplace Learning for Faculty Professionals in the Changing Thai University Context: A Case Study of Sripatum University, Chonburi Campus
This study investigated the workplace learning of faculty staff at Sripatum University, Chonburi campus, Thailand. It is set in the context of significant change in Thai education and government legislation to improve the quality and standards of education at all levels. The aim was to improve …
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Sexual health matters! learning for life: mapping client need and professional sexual health education for nurses in England
Sexual health matters! This motif underpins the entire thesis. With survey responses from university educators and focus group encounters with clinical professionals undertaking the UK-wide Sexual Health Skills course, the study explores ways in which specific discourses pertaining to sexual health …
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Essays on the economics of technology
This dissertation studies the adoption and usage patterns of information communication technologies and how the spread of these technologies affects labor market outcomes. I approach this question in three ways. First, I analyze the effects of the expansion of broadband Internet access from 1999 to …