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Just Passing Through…Or Not

Just Passing Through…Or Not PR ES I DENT’S PODIUM During my twenty-seven years (Remember MDTA and then a while. It will be tough to depart agencies with the technological as an educator, I have often been CETA?) labeled “workforce devel- from a posture or practice that is capacity to cost-effectively serve both bemused and amused by the opment” come at a time when predicated on accountability and local and distance populations buzz-phrases of the day, most of accountability is paramount in productivity! Add the entire wel- will stand a greater chance at which have originated from con- the thinking of elected officials fare reform dynamic to the mix, grant awards. Distance learning ceptual breakthroughs reported in and the nation’s taxpayers. and it is easy to see how much technology has more than blurred the professional literature or from pressure there will be on program service delivery boundaries - it lawmakers. In the case of the lat- deliverers actually to stand and has obliterated them. We aren’t ter, appropriations have usually deliver. just in competition with neigh- followed the catch-phrase-labeled Certainly a third source of boring agencies; we must now practice, program, or concept. And innovative programs is techno- compete for IocaVregional stu- Distance http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adult Learning SAGE

Just Passing Through…Or Not

Adult Learning , Volume 8 (2): 3 – Nov 1, 1996

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 1996 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
ISSN
1045-1595
eISSN
2162-4070
DOI
10.1177/104515959600800201
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Abstract

PR ES I DENT’S PODIUM During my twenty-seven years (Remember MDTA and then a while. It will be tough to depart agencies with the technological as an educator, I have often been CETA?) labeled “workforce devel- from a posture or practice that is capacity to cost-effectively serve both bemused and amused by the opment” come at a time when predicated on accountability and local and distance populations buzz-phrases of the day, most of accountability is paramount in productivity! Add the entire wel- will stand a greater chance at which have originated from con- the thinking of elected officials fare reform dynamic to the mix, grant awards. Distance learning ceptual breakthroughs reported in and the nation’s taxpayers. and it is easy to see how much technology has more than blurred the professional literature or from pressure there will be on program service delivery boundaries - it lawmakers. In the case of the lat- deliverers actually to stand and has obliterated them. We aren’t ter, appropriations have usually deliver. just in competition with neigh- followed the catch-phrase-labeled Certainly a third source of boring agencies; we must now practice, program, or concept. And innovative programs is techno- compete for IocaVregional stu- Distance

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Published: Nov 1, 1996

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