Take control of your health, longevity, and well-being Today over sixty percent of the people in our country are overweight, and we’re facing a near-epidemic of obesity and diabetes. You may be asking, “How can I take control of my own health?” If so, this book is your answer. You’ll discover how lifestyle choices lead to a long, healthy, and vibrant life. Open the book to find: • The power of the mind-body-spirit connection • How you can take a profoundly positive step regarding your behavior and health by shifting from a passive to a proactive approach • How to increase harmony and synchronicity in your life • Misconceptions about change and ways to handle the stress of change • The new science of aging and staying functionally younger • Exercise-induced changes that can work for you • What good nutrition is and why some diets work and others don’t • How the synergism of combining exercise, diet, and social involvement leads to big health benefits • Special chapter on women’s health and special concerns • Three chapters on alternative medicine and healing approaches
Recent Australian and overseas studies on evaluation of enterprises' return on training investment (ROTI) were reviewed to identify key issues in encouraging increased evaluation of training benefits by enterprises and successful approaches that may inform future "enterprise-friendly" studies of ROTI. It was concluded that more practical, creative, and cost-effective approaches to determining ROTI are needed so as to encourage more enterprises of all sizes to conduct their own ROTI studies. The following were among the recommendations emerging from the review: (1) adopt a broad definition of training that incorporates all forms of learning and skill formation; (2) use the term ROTI when evaluating enterprise returns from training rather than the narrower quantitative term "return on investment"; (3) develop and use ROTI approaches that provide decision makers with timely, useful, and accessible qualitative and quantitative evidence of the contribution of training to enterprises' operational and strategic priorities; and (4) focus on using existing enterprise data. More than 50 possible training outcomes were identified under the following headings: productivity and efficiency; sales and profitability; quality of products and services; customer service and satisfaction; occupational health and safety; organizational learning and development; and organizational climate and practices. (Contains 54 references.) (MN)
Take control of your health, longevity, and well-being Today over sixty percent of the people in our country are overweight, and we're facing a near-epidemic of obesity and diabetes. You may be asking, "How can I take control of my own health?" If so, this book is your answer. You'll discover how lifestyle choices lead to a long, healthy, and vibrant life. Open the book to find: The power of the mind-body-spirit connection How you can take a profoundly positive step regarding your behavior and health by shifting from a passive to a proactive approach How to increase harmony and synchronicity in your life Misconceptions about change and ways to handle the stress of change The new science of aging and staying functionally younger Exercise-induced changes that can work for you What good nutrition is and why some diets work and others don't How the synergism of combining exercise, diet, and social involvement leads to big health benefits Special chapter on women's health and special concerns Three chapters on alternative medicine and healing approaches Rod Rhoades, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Rhoades was, until his retirement in 2003, department chair of Cellular and Integrative Physiology. He has more than thirty-five years of experience in medical research and medical education. He has published numerous research articles and reviews. Dr. Rhoades is also author and co-editor of Human Physiology and Medical Physiology: Principles for Clinical Medicine, respectively. Jim McDonald, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University School of Dentistry where he taught Nutrition, Molecular Biology, and Oral Disease Prevention for thirty-six years; he also served as the Dean of Education at the School of Dentistry. During his career, he received numerous teaching awards and published more than eighty scientific articles and a dozen monographs, textbook chapters, and textbooks.
This study examined the implications of lifelong learning for vocational education and training (VET) in Australia. Data were collected from the following activities: literature review; consultations across Australia with stakeholders; case studies in five locations (Albury-Wodonga, Devonport, Ballarat, Newcastle, Canberra); investigations into developments in other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries; and preparation of an interim report and discussion of that report at a national seminar in Sydney in November 1998. The study established that major changes in VET's socioeconomic environment have made it essential that the sector develop and implement coherent policies and strategies (such as the Learning City) to advance lifelong learning opportunities for all Australians. Specific actions to promote lifelong learning and help transform Australia into a learning society were recommended for the following entities: Ministerial Council on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs; national and state/territorial governments; Australian National Training Authority; Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs; National Centre for Vocational Education Research; industry associations; and VET institutions. (Contains 147 references and 23 tables/figures/exhibits. Appended are the following: glossary; project terms of reference; a report on the project seminar; project group members; overview of the case studies; and the report's recommendations and principal themes.) (MN)
Guidelines for conducting departmental reviews are presented to help review panels, departments being reviewed, and administrators. In planning a review, the following considerations are important: the purpose of the review and the terms of reference, the organization of the review and who will conduct it, and the information that will be obtained. Terms of reference include: the quality of the curriculum and instruction; the quality of research development/professional activities within the department; the adequacy of facilities, funds, administration, policies, and support structures; and the adequacy of liaisons between the department and the institution and other departments and groups. The following specific steps of the review are discussed: appointing a review panel, making the terms of reference operational, locating and assembling existing documentation relevant to each term of reference, determining other information that is needed, collecting the data, analyzing and interpreting the findings, producing the draft and final reports, initiating action on study recommendations, and establishing procedures for monitoring progress. Guidelines for institutional policy concerning departmental and school reviews are included. (SW)
TO THE SUMMIT is the story of a 12-year-old kid who climbs Mt. McKinley. It was June 23, 1991, solstice day, that he summited, making him the youngest mountaineer to do so. Taras lives within the "shadows" of Mt. McKinley in beautiful Talkeetna, Alaska. He is the son of the late & legendary Ray Genet who perished 12 years earlier on the upper-Mt. Everest slope. It was back then that the promise was made - "...some day I'm gonna take you up Denali." That day, he was a special guest member of a guided expedition led by Fantasy Ridge Expedition, Inc. AK. Comics artist Rod Gonzalez worked closely with chief guide Chip Faurot, Taras & his mother on this project. We feel that we have produced a clean & inspirational story & are anxious to share it with you. TO THE SUMMIT is a 32-page B/W production with UV coating on the cover...printed on bookpaper (making it a great coloring book). Alaska Comics uses Capitol City Distribution, Inc., P.O. Box 8156, Madison, WI 53708. For direct contact: Max North Alaska Comics, 316 Price Street, Anchorage, AK 99508, 907/279-4913. ISBN 1-882724-00-3, $3.95.
This project focuses on fresh thinking about how people learn. The 'think pieces' reveal the following : evidence of a lack of fit between today's learners' ambitions and expectations and what many educators and trainers imagine; research in cognitive science is making clearer the difference between implicit and explicit knowledge; changes in the economic landscape are delivering a world of work that is full of contradictions and paradoxes; and, that by the way we assess learners, even in a competency based system, we reduce their capacity to be self determining lifelong learners. [Extract, ed].
This discussion paper is intended to inform the further development of the National Research and Evaluation Strategy (NRES) by strengthening its focus on evaluation in Australian vocational education and training (VET). Chapter 1 discusses the implications for the role of evaluation that changes in VET have caused in the past decade. Chapter 2 focuses on these dimensions of evaluation: for what purpose, by whom, and using which approach. Chapter 3 outlines these focus areas of current evaluation activities, from the largest scale to the smallest: evaluation of national performance; evaluation of policies and national initiatives; evaluation of practice; consumer evaluation of training provision; and critique of policies and programs. Chapter 4 describes these three outcomes to assist the use of evaluative methods to support decision making that could be achieved by extending the NRES: (1) a useful level of evaluative activities; (2) a capacity to evaluate; and (3) an informed and robust critique. Two appendixes are "The Performance of the VET System: Further Details" and "Some Possible Topics for Evaluation of National Initiatives." (YLB)
The history and current state of evaluation of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia was examined. The study's main conclusion was that, despite its important potential, evaluation has thus far been little used for the improvement of VET in Australia. Other conclusions of the study were as follows: (1) little development of evaluation theory has occurred over the past few decades; (2) during the past 5 years, only 98 evaluations of VET and 4 evaluations of workplace training were published; (3) according to a recent survey of industry, only 48% of worksites formally evaluated any training delivered in the past year; (4) most of the information being sought by Technical and Further Education (TAFE) agencies requires routine processing of data already held on TAFE's computer systems; (5) because of its relative ease and inexpensiveness, the performance indicators approach has replaced traditional course evaluation approaches in most areas of formal VET in Australia and overseas; and (6) three issues affecting the current state of evaluation of VET in Australia are little or no theory base, little policy focus, and little evaluation of "big" issues. (The report contains 43 references. Appended is a chart explaining the traditional division between evaluation and research.) (MN)
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