Archaeology in the classroom: An intra-university continuing education workshop for K-12 teachers

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Jacqueline J. Saindon ◽  
Carol M. Downs
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
University Continuing Education ◽  
Education Workshop ◽  
K 12

scholarly journals The Organizational Meaning of Research

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Adria ◽  
Patricia Boechler
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Cognitive Change ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
University Continuing Education ◽  
Organizational Action ◽  
Extended Reflection

Practitioners and theorists have given attention recently to the role and status of research activities in Canadian university continuing education units. For individuals in units that are increasing the proportion of their organizational activities devoted to research, there will be an ongoing process of cognitive change and development as a new organizational culture emerges. Sensemaking is used in this article as a heuristic for exploring the process of incorporating and developing research activities in university continuing education units. Sensemaking is the cognitive process of justifying or legitimating a decision or outcome after the decision or outcome is already known. It is associated with organizational models that reject an exclusively rational decision-making paradigm of organizational action. Sensemaking recognizes the centrality of the following elements in the interpretation of research activities and their relationship to organizational life: time, identity construction, and the ongoing creation of context. The authors provide an extended reflection on the process of meaning-making that may be experienced by individuals as conventional research becomes a more important part of organizational life. Such a reflection may support and inform the change process as it occurs in university continuing education units.

Applied sciences continuing education at Simon Fraser

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-143
Author(s):  
Donald A. George ◽  
June R. Landsburg
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
University Continuing Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Simon Fraser University

At Simon Fraser University, continuing education activities are developed and administered by the division of Continuing Studies working in association with the university's academic departments. The Applied Sciences Program, a Continuing Studies unit, was formed in early 1986 to parallel the new Faculty of Applied Sciences established in 1985 in a major reorganization of the University. This faculty is composed of the Schools of Computing Science, Kinesiology and Engineering Science plus the Department of Communication and the Natural Resources Management Program. The article focuses on the School of Engineering Science and their collaborative work with industry in continuing education.

scholarly journals About Us: Reflection and Dialogue on the Purpose of University Continuing Education in Canada

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Gander
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Full Circle ◽  
University Continuing Education ◽  
The University

This article is a response to Scott McLean’s (2007) CJUCE Forum article “About Us,” which set out the claims that university continuing education (UCE) units make about themselves on their websites. Using the activities of the Legal Studies Program of the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta as a reference point, this article suggests that the activities of UCE units may not be as bland as their purpose statements suggest. The ability of those statements to represent the visions of UCE units is questioned, as is the adequacy of the processes by which such statements are generated. In doing so, the author exposes the need to catalogue what UCE units are actually doing and reflect on why we seem to need to downplay some of those activities. The article concludes with the suggestion that in presenting a synthesis of the units’ purpose statements, McLean takes UCE units full circle to the debate he set to the side: What should UCE units do?

A Scenario That Works

2018 ◽  
pp. 184-191
Author(s):  
Patricia K. Gibson ◽  
Dennis A. Smith ◽  
Sarah G. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Military Training ◽  
General Information ◽  
High Tech ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Teacher Learning Communities

Technology use in K-12 classrooms in this era of rapid high-tech change ranges from deep and meaningful technological immersion to an outright classroom ban on electronic devices. Attempting to mitigate this technological divide between students and teachers, school districts increasingly require professional development in applicable student technologies and teacher support resources. Unfortunately, the standards for continuing education requirements are broad, money is tight, and development efforts are often far less organized. As unfortunate, current issues and general information sharing dominate the professional learning communities (PLCs) or teacher learning communities (TLCs) originally designed to fulfill professional development requirements. These challenges render the occasional professional development initiative included in a PLC or TLC event, ineffective where the fragmented, uninteresting, and often poorly planned technology instruction very rarely seems to stick. Drawing on experience with military training and continuing education training, the authors propose a simple, inexpensive, and internally resourced means used by soldiers to train individual and collective military tasks, to assist elementary and secondary teachers to learn how emerging technology works, and more importantly, how to maximize its effective use in the classroom.

The Agile and Virtual University

2011 ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
Maria Manuela Cunha ◽  
Goran D. Putnik ◽  
Eva Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Virtual University ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
University Continuing Education ◽  
New Concepts

The convergence of information technology developments, together with instructional and pedagogical developments, is creating opportunities for new paradigms of learning and teaching. New concepts of postgraduated university education and of university continuing education will emerge, where new roles for individuals and institutions will be available and where new requirements will shrink.

scholarly journals Efficient, Effective, and Ethical Practice in Lifelong Learning

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas N. Guinsburg
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
University Continuing Education ◽  
University Programs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ethical View

This paper seeks to assess the interaction of--and tensions between--efficiency, effectiveness, and ethics in goal-setting for university continuing education programs. Its thesis is that efficiency, that is, a cost accountant's measure of productivity, is of limited utility unless we articulate thoughtfully and appropriately what we are trying to be efficient at. The goal of effectiveness, which measures the relationship between program results and program objectives, helps us to be wary of those "efficiencies" that subvert essential program objectives. Finally, effectiveness cannot be separated from an ethical view of lifelong learning: beneficial to society, collaborative rather than competitive, and keeping faith with our highest professional values and institutional standards. Only a raison d'être grounded in ethically based effectiveness can ensure the sort of future we want for university programs of lifelong learning.

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