OBJECTIVES This study examined the continuing-education needs of the currently employed public health education workforce. METHODS A national consensus panel of leading health educators from public health agencies, academic institutions, and professional organizations was convened to examine the forces creating the context for the work of public health educators and the competencies they need...

Building onto a short introduction into the e-portfolio method this contribution focuses on experiences and challenges for adult education: For that, it describes best practice, current projects and initiatives in European adult and continuing education. Additionally, the results of interviews with experienced adult educators who have already worked with the e-portfolio method will be referred:...

This article aims to discuss the challenges adult educators in the field of “Mathematics for Life” face, as well as to analyse the adaptation and creation of professional practices that emerge from the implementation of the Recognition, Validation, and Certification of Competencies (RVCC) process used in the Portuguese adult education system. Methodologically, the study was undertaken using a q...

It known that teachers as educators should have competence that shows its quality so that the lecture material provided can be absorbed by the student. The competencies in this term include the pedagogic, professional, personality, and social. The competence that owned by lecturer can be obtained from the results of the assessment conducted by the student through the filling of the questionnair...

Accountability concerns in language education call for the development of more valid and authentic measures of assessment. In light of these concerns, performance assessment has received increasing interest in the context of teacher education programs and teacher licensing over the last decade. In Iran, a recent policy adopted by Farhangian University aims at assessing the professional competen...

Today, educators have raised important questions about the quality of interactivity or interaction between students and between teachers and their students. The author has investigated interactivity, completed a doctor’s degree from a distance education school and teaches online for the University of Phoenix. The discussion highlights interactivity research studies, outlines vital online teache...