Learner Preferences in Continuing Professional Education

Schuttenberg, Ernest M.; Gallagher, John P.; Poppenhagen, Brent W.

doi:10.1080/0305763860130104

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“…However, continuing education faces particular challenges if it is to meet the needs of professional learners. Schuttenberg et al (1986) remind us that adults' learning needs are quite distinct from those of younger learners. Adults can and do wish to participate more in the design, delivery and evaluation of their own learning programmes , and this is particularly true at higher levels of education.…”

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confidence: 96%

Learning at a distance: the case of the community pharmacist

Wilson¹,

Bagley²

1999

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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The article, written jointly by a provider and an evaluator of distance learning, begins by highlighting recent increased interest in continuing professional development. In particular community pharmacists' needs for continuing education are examined against a background of their changing role. The authors then report the ® ndings from a one-year evaluation of distance learning materials produced and distributedby the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education at the University of Manchester. The evaluation, undertaken by a team from the Scottish Council for Research in Education, was conducted in two phases: ® rst, a national survey of registered pharmacists, and second, a series of focus group meetings with practising pharmacists. By separating high, low and non-users, a picture of professional use of distance learning, the in¯uence of mediating factors and the inter-relationship between personal motivation and design emerge. Some of the ® ndings challenge the current orthodoxy (see for example, Lewis 1995, Burt 1997, Burt and Simpson 1998, Bennett 1998 which underpins distance learning. Finally, changes made as a consequence of the evaluation are indicated, showing how research can in¯uence practice.

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confidence: 96%