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DeMartino, Linsay – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2021
This essay serves as the narrative of an early career Assistant Professor as they recall their struggles, vulnerabilities, and insecurities while navigating the need to shift their educational leadership doctoral students to emergency remote learning amid a global pandemic. Using the foundations of transformational experiences for adult learners,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Li, Ken W. – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2021
The purpose of this report is to describe how a teacher utilized technology to teach elderly learners Chinese calligraphy and how they learnt. Before the incidence of COVID-19, six sessions of Chinese calligraphy were conducted in a community services centre for elderly learners in Hong Kong from 9:00am to 5:00pm on a weekday every week, with each…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Chinese, Handwriting
Jeremic, Rusa – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2021
For 40 years, the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education has been instrumental in promoting debate on critical pedagogical approaches and sharing best practices in engaging in transformative education models. A few months into 2020, it became clear that not only were we in a new age--the digital age--identified by some as the Fourth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Practices, Best Practices
Yazdanmehr, Elham; Elahi Shirvan, Majid; Saghafi, Khatereh – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Motivated by the present dominance of online education worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, the present study employed a process-tracing approach to explore the causal mechanisms of boredom in an online L3 learning. The present case study was done on an adult learner of German and analyzed her accounts of experiencing boredom throughout a whole…
Descriptors: German, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2021
2020 will be remembered as a watershed year. The pandemic's impact has moved Europe's vocational education and training (VET) and skills policy centre stage. The new EU policy in the making was designed to unleash VET's full potential and make it better suited to shape and manage the digital and green transitions to a fair economy and society; it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Searby, Patricia F. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The unprecedented shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique opportunity to research adult English language learners' lived experiences of online learning and motivations for persistence. With the growing trend of offering online learning to adult learners and concerns over the high attrition rates associated with…
Descriptors: Adult Students, English Language Learners, Student Experience, Electronic Learning
Cabreja-Castillo, Maria; Hernandez, Leislany; Mustafa, Alicia; Hungria, Gregory; Bertoli, Maria T. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2023
The pandemic brought a whole newfound collection of words into our everyday language, some of which had been terms that were infrequently used outside academic and medical settings. However, as familiar as this new pandemic vocabulary has become, there are still several terms that often get mixed in everyday conversations, media communications,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Concepts, Pandemics
Baytar, El Mustapha; Elyacoubi, Hayat; Saqri, Nadia; Ouchaouka, Lynda – Research in Learning Technology, 2023
In the current digital age, the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) into teaching practices has become a determining factor in learning quality. The teachers' digital competence issue has come back to the forefront because of the schools' closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study aims to assess the sense of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Competencies, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology
Catherine A. Hansman; Wendy M. Green; Rachel Wlodarsky – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
The history of Adult Education (AE) graduate programs spans almost a century, yet many programs have experienced significant challenges in recent years to remain viable. The purpose of this paper is to understand the struggles AE graduate programs encounter in building, maintaining, and growing programs in North America. We conducted two separate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, COVID-19
Anne Fensie; Teri St. Pierre; Jennifer Jain; Asli Sezen-Barrie – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2024
Adult learners are a significant proportion of distance learners and many of these students are working mothers. Several instructional design models center the learner, and this requires understanding the learner needs, strengths, and context. There is a gap in the literature describing the experience of modern working mother students in distance…
Descriptors: Mothers, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Adult Students
Collom, Gresham Donald; Cooper, Ashton Ryan – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2022
Utilizing narrative inquiry and thematic analysis, this study followed up with adult students who initially participated in a qualitative project, Understanding How Students Reconnect: A Longitudinal Study (Collom et al., 2021). Five participants shared their experiences as adult students during COVID-19, which included their experiences shifting…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Experience, COVID-19, Pandemics
Clare, Sandra; Clark, Kat – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
This article explores an idea the researchers are calling Andragogical Isomorphism. The idea being that adults who are motivated to learn become academic when in non-linear relationships with other learners and their tutors. When all are able to be curious, vulnerable and confident shifts in academic capabilities occur. The global pandemic…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Adult Students, Early Childhood Education, COVID-19
Georgette T. Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A review of the literature revealed the need to further explore continuing-generation college students attending community colleges. This case study sought to understand the choice process of continuing-generation, direct-entry college students who enrolled in Miami Dade College (MDC), a baccalaureate community college. This research was planned…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Choice, Costs, Paying for College
Heckethorn, Joel E.; Giovacchini, Michael; Doubet, Kristina J. – Educational Leadership, 2021
High school instructional leaders describe how they reframed professional learning around autonomy with structured support. The new system, guided by trust and teacher inquiry, sparked innovation that proved critical during the pandemic.
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Faculty Development, Professional Autonomy, Teacher Empowerment
Arnold, Christine Helen; Badenhorst, Cecile; Hoben, John – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2021
In this article we reflect on the challenges we have encountered regarding our teaching and learning practices as adult educators during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through narrative reflections, we grapple with this rapidly changing teaching and learning environment. Our collection of adult and post-secondary programmes were designed to be delivered…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Postsecondary Education, COVID-19