Education + Training: Volume 55 Issue 1

Gaming across cultures: experimenting with alternate pedagogies

Soma Pillay, Reynold James

Higher education is influenced, to an increasing extent, by changing student demographics. This requires educators to design and deliver learning systems which will enhance…

Learning through fictional business: expertise for real life?

Kirsi Kettula, Henriikka Clarkeburn

The aim of this study is to investigate whether educational drama can be used as a tool to facilitate expert knowledge development and to help students prepare themselves for…

Informal learning in the workplace: key activities and processes

John Cunningham, Emilie Hillier

The purpose of this study is to define characteristics and processes that enhance informal learning in a public sector workplace.

Journalling and public health education: thinking about reflecting…

Marguerite C. Sendall, Michelle L. Domocol

The purpose of this research is to understand reflective journalling in a first year Public Health practice unit.

At risk policy and early intervention programmes for underperforming students: Ensuring success?

Angela R. Dobele, Michael Gangemi, Foula Kopanidis, Stuart Thomas

The purpose of this paper is to examine a University's at risk program and ask is the intervention strategy working? The program seeks to assist at risk students who may be…

Increasing learners’ satisfaction/intention to adopt more e‐learning

Sukanlaya Sawang, Cameron Newton, Kieren Jamieson

E‐learning is an organizationally risky investment given the cost and poor levels of adoption by users. In order to gain a better understanding of this problem, the aim of this…