In order to succeed in today’s life and work environments, people require more than thinking skills and content knowledge. Initiative and self-direction skills are needed, including the ability to manage goals and time, to work independently, and be self-directed learners. On the other hand, e-learning has brought changes in every field of formal and informal education, such as training program...

Since passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, much debate has occurred regarding how to address curriculum in terms of meeting needs of students within various special education categories. Recently, more discussion has emerged regarding transition and curriculum geared towards assisting with this process, particularly as researchers discover dismal...

As societies age in most industrialized countries, reforms of the pension systems have become a central issue on the political agenda. A widely discussed proposition is to extend working life. An important implicit presumption of this proposition is that demand for older workers will continue until they reach the higher statutory retirement age. However, in most OECD countries the effective ret...

Although educators and employers agree that it is important to assess the critical thinking skills of students and prospective employees, few assessments have been externally validated with real-world outcomes of critical thinking. The Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment (HCTA) is a reliable measure of critical thinking skills and has been validated with multiple populations and measures of ac...

The development of digital information literacy (DIL) has been slow in comparison to changes in information communication technologies, and this remains an issue for the higher education sector. Competency in such skills is essential to full participation in society and work. In addition, these skills are regarded as underpinning the ability to maintain life long learning. Evidence suggests tha...

Effective counselors employ an array of skills. Carl Rogers (1975) believed that the counselor’s ability to be congruent, accepting, and empathic is necessary for clients to be able to change, and these skills are routinely taught in counselor education. Later in his life, Rogers also articulated the need for a quality of presence that is an essential aspect of client-centered therapy. In an in...

Software engineering of large and complex systems depends on three critical success factors: design, management and people. This contribution focuses on the factor people based on the real life experience of a software company of 700 people. Our selection of those people concentrates on abilities not on skills. Continuing education covers both, educating the personality as well as technological...