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"As Norman Longworth shows in this book, lifelong learning has now become a rapidly developing reality. Learning communities, where business and industry, schools, colleges, universities, professional organizations and local government co-operate and build a dynamic new environment to foster learning, are springing up throughout the world." "Using many concrete examples of learning communities that are already adapting for the future. Norman Longworth...

In order to develop effective education programs for adult learners, it is necessary first to determine what the needs of those learners are. In this book, Donna S. Queeney offers step-by-step guidance on using needs assessment to design high-quality programs in continuing education settings. She identifies the factors to be considered in planning and conducting a needs assessment, such as the educational setting and characteristics of learners, and...

In this video, Accounting and Business students in GCSE, BTEC and FE courses will find accessible and contextual definitions by industry experts of three key accounting terms - revenue, expenses and profit - and how these factors interrelate in income statement calculations.

"In fifteen original chapters, the authors explore in depth the theoretical principles and practical applications of an educational strategy that enables people of all ages to use existing knowledge, new information, and tools to solve problems, make decisions, and acquire new skills throughout their lives." --BarnesandNoble.com.

"Mastering the Instructional Design Process, Third Edition also addresses current trends and developments - breaking new technologies, rapid change, outsourcing of internal instructional designers, knowledge capital, speed in market change, and globalization and diversity - that are influencing today's business environment and the instructional design process."--Jacket.

"Increasing Effectiveness of the Community College Financial Model: A Global Perspective for the Global Economy depicts the challenges and responses of community college financing in an era where funding has decline and so too has the opportunity to provide quality education for the citizenry nationally and internationally. The theoretically based chapters highlight issues of leadership, governance and financing models for institutional change. The...

This book offers a new and promising way to support adults in Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) programs specifically, and learners in adult education, in general. Applying renowned Harvard University psychologist Robert Kegan's constructive-development theory, Drago-Severson depicts an in-depth investigation into how and why adults develop "ways of knowing" to better prepare them for their work in the...