Needs Analysis and Programme Planning in Adult Education

How to identify, analyse, and assess the various types of adult learning needs? How to develop programmes tailored to these needs? This study guide is written for postgraduate students preparing to become professional adult educators, as well as for those intending to plan educational programmes for adults. The book covers the various types of adult (learning)needs and provides hints on how to identify, analyse, and assess these needs. It presents typical challenges involved in performing such an analysis as well as theoretical considerations of the concept and types of needs, of diagnosing educational needs and their theoretical understanding. The author draws conclusions on how to develop programmes tailored to the needs identified. With a focus on practical concerns, she illustrates the necessary steps as well as the factors to be considered when designing an educational programme for adults, both in the planning stage and in the stages of implementation and evaluation. From the Contents: The Importance of Needs Analysis and Programme Planning in Adult Education Needs: Theoretical Considerations Fields of Needs Analysis in an Educational Context Methods of Needs Analysis in Adult Education Needs Analysis for Planning Educational Programmes Steps in Programme Planning in Adult Educatio

Trends in Adult and Continuing Education in Romania, a Country in Transformation

The Plan to market transition brought with it the restructuring of the labour market, but also unemployment, new job profiles, and ongoing reform of the education sys­tem. Within the catch-up process of joining the EU and harmonizing the legislative framework and developments with the aquis communautaire, the effort to set up and implement effective policies was relatively coherent. But the results achieved so far show that much more efforts are needed, as the participation rate of adults in educa­tion is still only 1.6 percent. Positive trends can be identified as well: a diversified range of institutions, a national system of quality assurance and of APEL (Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning), increased funds allocated in the last two years, and an increased awareness and know-how in the field of ACE1

Needs Analysis and Programme Planning in Adult Education

How to identify, analyse, and assess the various types of adult learning needs? How to develop programmes tailored to these needs? This study guide is written for postgraduate students preparing to become professional adult educators, as well as for those intending to plan educational programmes for adults. The book covers the various types of adult (learning)needs and provides hints on how to identify, analyse, and assess these needs. It presents typical challenges involved in performing such an analysis as well as theoretical considerations of the concept and types of needs, of diagnosing educational needs and their theoretical understanding. The author draws conclusions on how to develop programmes tailored to the needs identified. With a focus on practical concerns, she illustrates the necessary steps as well as the factors to be considered when designing an educational programme for adults, both in the planning stage and in the stages of implementation and evaluation. From the Contents: The Importance of Needs Analysis and Programme Planning in Adult Education Needs: Theoretical Considerations Fields of Needs Analysis in an Educational Context Methods of Needs Analysis in Adult Education Needs Analysis for Planning Educational Programmes Steps in Programme Planning in Adult Educatio

Quality of the online delivery in the European Master in Adult Education

AbstractThe students from European Master in Adult Education were attending offers on Moodle platform, and also interacting with professors and peers from abroad. The students’ satisfaction about the quality of online delivery, and their preferences for a fully online offer/a blended one, or a F2F one were investigated, trying also to find out if there are differences in students’ perceptions if they are from different countries. Results showed that, in spite of being very favorable to the online offer, they were more content with F2F delivery, suggesting that like this they met professors from abroad, an highly appreciated opportunity

Models of Quality Assurance in Evaluation and Validation of Competencies, for an Easier Access to Higher Education

AbstractValidation of competencies is an issue very much debated nowadays at European level as a solution for enlarging access to higher education. Unfortunately, the Romanian higher education system is still not open to introducing this flexible pathway from a formal point of view, even though bottom-up practices exist.The paper presents a content analysis of three models elaborated and operating in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Nordic countries, for ensuring quality in the validation practices introduced in their higher education institutions, highlighting possible ways for transferring such models into the Romanian context

Interrelations between the cerebral cortex and the trigeminal system: studies in healthy subjects and in migraine patients therapeutic perspectives

Understanding migraine pathophysiology is probably the most challenging point in migrainemanagement, since an efficient acute and preventive treatment should rely on clearpathophysiological bases. Migraine is characterized interictally by a lack of habituation ofevoked responses, possibly due to a decreased preactivation level of sensory cortices. Bycontrast, during an attack and in chronic migraine, the preactivation level increases andhabituation normalizes. New neurostimulation techniques could be useful to durably modifythe activation of the underlying cortex, decreasing the repetition of attacks, giving alsoinsight on the pathophysiology of migraine.The visual cortex plays a pivotal role in migraine pathophysiology, but its effect on thetrigeminal nociceptive system remains poorly understood. On the other hand migraine attackis often associated to photophobia, but the pathophysiological relation between headache andthe discomfort to the light, during the ictal but also the interictal phase, is unclear.This thesis puts a new insight into the relation between the visual cortex modulation and theresponse of the trigeminal nociceptive system, showing a possible inhibitory functionalinterrelation between these structures, via thalamic modulation.The hypothesis is based on our first finding investigating the modulation of the visual cortexby the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on the nociceptive blink reflex in healthysubjects and migraine patients.This role of the activation of the visual cortex is also better understood by using the flash lightstimulation, and thanks to the conception of a new device of flash light stimulation, weperformed several protocols in healthy subjects and migraine patient with the final result aproof-of-concept trial using the flash light stimulation in migraine patients

Mathematical Modelling of Steel Continuous Casting Hydrodynamics (1)

The quality increase of steel continuous casting and a reliability indices of afferent installations imposes the automation systems adoption of machines of continuous casting of steel. In this paper enters original solution of automatic settlement of liquid steel debit and level in tundish and analyses the behaviour in dynamics behaviour of automatic installation

Exploring the ecological efficiency as the path to resilience

The permanent changes in society affect, among other, the environment. This is why environmental efficiency plays a very important role, being quantified in different forms. In our paper we have developed a composite index of ecological efficiency taking into account two dimensions, environmental pollution and resource consumption, each one being characterized by specific indicators. Thus, using this index, the aim was to evaluate and rank the level of greening of each country in Europe. Crises over time, including the health crisis caused by coronavirus, have focused to resilience, so we have highlighted whether it is significantly influenced by the ecological efficiency index. In addition, we analyzed whether ecological efficiency is related to investments in a country, financial, material and technological potential