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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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van Daal, Tine; Donche, Vincent; De Maeyer, Sven – Vocations and Learning, 2014
This study examines the influence of personality traits, goal orientation and self-efficacy on high school teachers' participation in learning activities in the workplace (i.e. experimentation, informal interaction with colleagues, self-regulation and avoidance behaviour). A convenience sample of 95 teachers from six high schools in Flanders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality, Goal Orientation, Self Efficacy
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Endedijk, Maaike D.; Bronkhorst, Larike H. – Vocations and Learning, 2014
Many professional educational programs combine learning at an educational institute with learning in the workplace. The differences between these contexts, and the resulting challenges for learning, have been well-documented. However, there are few studies that explore the same students' learning in both contexts, and even fewer that compare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Workplace Learning, Professional Education
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Pool, Inge A.; Poell, Rob F.; ten Cate, Th. J. – Vocations and Learning, 2013
The need for nurses to participate in continuing professional development (CPD) is growing to keep abreast of rapid changes in nursing care. Concurrently, the nursing workforce is growing older. Ageing leads to changes in biological, psychological, and social functioning. Little is known about the effects of age-related changes on nurses'…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Professional Development, Nursing Education, Aging (Individuals)
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van de Wiel, Margje W. J.; Van den Bossche, Piet – Vocations and Learning, 2013
This study examined physicians' motivation to engage in work-related learning and its contribution to expertise development beyond work experience. Based on deliberate practice theory, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 residents and 28 experienced physicians in internal medicine, focusing on the activities they engaged in during…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Questionnaires, Semi Structured Interviews, Learning Motivation
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Veillard, Laurent – Vocations and Learning, 2012
The aim of this article is to discuss transfer of learning in a tertiary technical course in the French educational context. The focus is on a pedagogical sequence (i.e. a complex problem-solving activity) requiring different types of knowledge that students are expected to have learnt previously in the different parts of their training course…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Postsecondary Education, College Students, Transfer of Training