Impact of Economic Crisis on Education and the Next-generation Workforce

Business, engineering, education, and other researchers from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the US, and Australia provide 16 chapters that examine the new labor market after the 2008 economic crisis, policies for new educational challenges, the future roles of academic staff, and challenges of distance and mobile learning in higher education. They address the relationship between higher education and the job market; the intellectual capital model as applied to non-profit organizations; student satisfaction in distance learning; the roles of lifelong learning and knowledge management in higher education; assessment of critical thinking in distance education information technology programs; the impact of the economic crisis on higher education in Greece and educational and training policies related to youth unemployment there; how information technology can provide possibilities for higher education after the economic crisis; online employer demand analysis; teacher and student use of social media; the role of vocationalism after the economic crisis; the role of lifelong learning in a knowledge society; cloud computing systems in higher education; entrepreneurial intention in undergraduate students; the relationship between career plateau and supervisory support in career satisfaction; and quality assurance and value management in higher education. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)