Overview of the Work-based
Learning Project
The
Office of Vocation and Adult Education of the U.S. Department of
Education (OVAE) has funded a project to conduct studies and
provide services to:
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Build a strong
knowledge base about effective practices in the area of
work-based learning; and, |
| 2 |
Build the
capacity of the adult education system to offer scalable
work-based learning services to businesses. |
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The project’s major objectives are to:
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Catalogue, organize
and synthesize existing research on work-based learning; |
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Conduct a colloquium
to identify research issues and develop a research agenda
to inform work-based learning initiatives at national,
state and local levels in areas such as: work-based instruction;
workplace learning certification; corporate, union and
adult education partnership models; technology use; work-based
learning assessment and program outcomes; |
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Collect and organize
information on State work-based learning policies; |
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Support this Work-basedLearning.org
website to develop and disseminate information, research
and promising practices, and; |
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Support the 2003 Workplace
Learning Conference in Chicago, December 2003, including
an OVAE forum and strand of sessions on program implementation,
research and other priority topics; |
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The project is conducted by DTI
Associates in partnership with the Conference
Board of Canada and the Institute
for Work and the Economy. It runs from January 2003 to March
2004.
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