Connecting Adult Learning and Knowledge Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Adult Teaching and Learning Methods and Theories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Adult Learning Theories and Practices

      • Laura L. Bierema

      Pages 3-25

   3. Incorporating Active Learning into Your Educational Repertoire

      • Laura L. Bierema

      Pages 27-49

   4. Linking Faculty to Organization Development and Change: Teaching4Learning@Unipd

      • Monica Fedeli

      Pages 51-68

   5. Student–Teacher Relationships: The Elephant in the Classroom

      • Edward W. Taylor

      Pages 69-83

   6. Linking Active Learning and Capstone Projects in Higher Education

      • Tullio Vardanega, Monica Fedeli

      Pages 85-103

   7. Teaching for Globalization: Implications for Knowledge Management in Organizations

      • Maria Cseh, Oliver S. Crocco, Chilanay Safarli

      Pages 105-118

   8. Knowledge Management for Organizational Success: Valuing Diversity and Inclusion Across Stakeholders, Structures, and Sectors

      • Tomika W. Greer, Toby M. Egan

      Pages 119-136

3. Knowledge Management in Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Knowledge Management: Theories and Practices

      • John S. Edwards

      Pages 139-156

   3. Using Social Networks and Communities of Practice to Promote Staff Collaboration in Higher Education

      • Niall Corcoran, Aidan Duane

      Pages 157-174

   4. Knowledge Management for Adult and Higher Education: Mapping the Recent Literature

      • Ettore Bolisani

      Pages 175-196

4. Case Studies and Best Practices That Consider Classroom Learning, Higher Education Change, and Organization Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. Sharing Active Learning Practices to Improve Teaching: Peer Observation of Active Teaching in a School of Engineering

      • Stefano Ghidoni, Monica Fedeli, Massimiliano Barolo

      Pages 199-213

   3. Comparative Studies, the Experience of COMPALL Winter School

      • Monika Staab, Regina Egetenmeyer

      Pages 215-226

   4. Fostering Knowledge Sharing Via Technology: A Case Study of Collaborative Learning Using Padlet

      • Daniela Frison, Concetta Tino

      Pages 227-235

   5. The Peer Observation: “Mentore” Project at University of Palermo

      • Marcella Cannarozzo, Pierluigi Gallo, Alida Lo Coco, Bartolomeo Megna, Pasquale Musso, Onofrio Scialdone

      Pages 237-248

This multidisciplinary book represents an initial attempt to connect adult learning and knowledge management in theory and practice. It provides educators, learners and organizational development professionals with new strategies and resources for developing active and effective pedagogies, which in turn prepare learners and practitioners to manage knowledge in organizations and higher education. To do so, it gathers contributions and case studies from a diverse, global team of authors and provides a theoretical and practical outline of new strategies and methods for facilitating adult teaching and learning. It also provides a fresh reading of active learning methods, by adopting a knowledge management viewpoint that is broadly applicable, whether helping students master content in university courses, or helping organizations learn and change.

The book is divided into three main sections: a) methods and theories for adult teaching and learning; b) knowledge management in education; and c) case studies and best practices that consider classroom learning, higher education change, and organization development.

• Adult education in knowledge based society
• Education and organizational development
• Learning in organizations
• Continuous learning and human resources
• Case studies in knowledge management
• Scholarship of teaching and learning
• Relationship between knowledge management and education
• Active learning theories

• University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  Monica Fedeli

• University of Georgia, Athens, USA

  Laura L. Bierema

Monica Fedeli is an Associate Professor at the University of Padova, Italy. Her past academic experience includes adjunct professorships at Michigan State University (USA), California University Berkeley School of Education (USA), and the University of Wurzburg (Germany). She designs and delivers programs focused on organizational development and change, workplace learning, faculty development, teaching and learning methods in adult education, and gender equity. She has published more than 100 articles in various national and international journals, and has authored, co-authored or edited four books including Coinvolgere per Apprendere: Metodi e Tecniche per la Formazione. She is a 2020 Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Georgia, USA.
 
Laura L. Bierema is a Professor of Adult Learning, Leadership & Organization Development at the University of Georgia (USA). She designs and delivers programs focused on learning, leadership, and change in corporations, nonprofits, healthcare, government, and higher education. Her research interests include workplace learning, career development, women’s leadership, organization development, executive coaching, and critical human resource development.  She has published over 60 articles that have appeared in both research and professional publications and has authored, co-authored or edited six books including Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice. Prof. Bierema was the winner of two “book-of-the-year” awards in 2015, and most recently was a 2018 Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Padova, Italy. 

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