This quantitative study compares the course grades earned by adult learners enrolled in college algebra amid different delivery formats to determine if one option is more viable than the other at a southeastern community college in the United States. Presented as a Dissertation in Practice (DiP), three manuscripts are incorporated in this study.…

In this article, the author discusses a study that she launched to open up conversations about age. She set out to collect and record the "opinions" of older women. She had been a returning student, and as a teacher at a community college with nontraditional-age students, she found herself perpetuating the cycle of silence about age in…

Education for adults ought to consider a both-and mindset when it comes to selecting approaches, values, and program models in today's multi-sector, multi-diverse, and cross-cultural environments of teaching and learning. Experiences from educational professionals can lead to recommendations for these instruction and mentoring approaches of adults…