Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning (2 Volumes)

Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning (2 Volumes)

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Release Date: October, 2012|Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 551
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2181-7
ISBN13: 9781466621817|ISBN10: 1466621818|EISBN13: 9781466621824
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Description:

As the 21st century has seen, lifelong learning has become more important as many countries have emerged into “learning societies”. With these learning societies, adult and community education, along with new technologies, play a major role in shaping and reshaping their economic, political, and cultural realities.

Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning addresses how technologies impact the combination of workforce education and adult learning. This comprehensive collection of research from leading authorities and front line faculty seeks to equip adult learners/employees with the right knowledge and skills to continue to contribute to the economy given the importance of the essential role of technologies.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Adult Learning and Innovative Technologies
  • Critical Theories in Adult and Community Education
  • Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants in Adult and Community Education
  • Employability, E-Entrepreneurship and Economic Recovery
  • Improving Workforce Education and Adult Learning
  • International Models of Adult Education
  • Lifelong Tools for the Adult Learner, the Educator and the Worker
  • Sustainability of Learning Societies
  • Technology and Social Justice
  • Transformative Learning in the Workplace
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Professor Viktor Wang has brought leadership to the study of education. He has solidified scholars’ understanding of how to conduct research into the complexities of the learning process. Alongside the production of 240+ refereed publications, Dr. Wang has provided many opportunities for his peers and students to develop their scholarly capabilities and stimulated the research agendas of numerous colleagues. His reputation as an empirical and interpretive researcher has resulted in his receiving the 2016 Presidential Award for Exceptional and Innovative Leadership in addition to multiple institutional awards both at home and abroad.

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