Digitalization of education : the how and why of lifelong learning : research results concerning online-further education in tourism : significance, expectation, utilisation / Lars Rettig.
Publisher:
Peter Lang GmbHInternationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-146) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 11. Summary, Outlook and Areas Requiring Further Research. 1.1. Objective -- 1.2. Guiding Questions -- 1.3. Structure -- 2. Definition of the Terms Education, Further Education, Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning -- 2.1. Education -- 2.2. Further Education -- 2.3. Lifelong Learning -- 2.4. Continuing Education -- 2.5. Summary -- 3. Necessity of Lifelong Learning -- Megatrends and Half-Life -- 3.1. Global Megatrends and Change of Structures -- 3.2. Half-Life of Knowledge -- 4. Learning and Learning Theories -- 4.1. Learning -- a Need? -- 4.2. Goal Setting Theory -- 4.3. Expectancy Theory -- 4.4. Behaviourism -- 4.5. Neo-Behaviourism -- 4.6. Cognitivism -- 4.7. Constructivism -- 4.8. Connectivism -- (not) a Learning Theory? -- 4.9. Summary -- 5. Online Further Education -- 5.1. Definition of the Terms E-Learning, Blended Learning, MOOC and SPOC -- 5.2. E-Learning in Further Education -- 6. Education and Further Education in Tourism -- 6.1. Academic Education in Tourism -- 6.2. Vocational Education in Tourism -- 6.3. Further Education in Tourism -- 6.4. Summary -- 7. Research Design -- 8. Results of the Empirical Study on the Importance, Investment and Promotion of Further Education in Tourism -- 8.1. Importance -- 8.2. Reasons for Further Education -- 8.3. Summary -- 8.4. Support of Further Education -- 8.5. Summary -- 8.6. Investment in Further Education -- 8.7. Summary -- 8.8. Discussion: Possible Further Effects of Further Education -- 9. Utilisation and Non-utilisation of Academic Further Education Offers in Tourism -- 9.1. Benefits for Companies -- 9.2. Advantages for Further Education Participants -- 9.3. Obstacles -- 9.4. Summary -- 9.5. Framework Conditions and Minimum Requirements -- 9.6. Available Time for Further Education -- 9.7. Discussion: Obstacles to Participation Despite Good Reasons -- 9.8. Summary -- 10. Expectations of Academic Online Further Education in Tourism -- 10.1. C/D Paradigm -- 10.2. Process Model of Service Provision -- 10.3. Kano Model of Customer Satisfaction -- 10.4. Self-Image and External Image -- 10.5. Further Education Offers at State Universities -- 10.6. Opportunities for the Utilisation of Online Offers in the Tourism Industry -- 10.7. Risks or Difficulties in the Utilisation of Online Offers in the Tourism Industry -- 10.8. Requirements -- 10.9. Excursus: A Demand for Improved Permeability of the Educational Pathways -- 11. Summary, Outlook and Areas Requiring Further Research.
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