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Esinam Afi Kayi – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Teaching and learning in higher education have increasingly become digitalized and associated with innovative pedagogical methodologies over the past decades. Following the sudden onset of the pandemic in March 2020, several studies tended to focus on traditional students' experiences with emergency remote education while literature is scarce on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Nontraditional Students
ChangFeng Ning; Yan Huang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Numerous research investigations have explored various approaches to online sports instruction; however, limited data exist regarding students' perspectives on the use of video and text-based instructional techniques. This paper endeavours to examine the impact of two asynchronous online physical learning methods (the YouTube method and the text…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Asynchronous Communication, Video Technology, Teaching Methods
Aljohani, Obaidalah H.; Alajlan, Sarah M. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2022
In today's world of accelerated progress and change, the skills to solve problems, think critically, communicate effectively, and manage lives are essential for people to flourish in the 21st century. The purpose of the study is to explore the role of Learning Neighborhood Programme for achieving the necessary life skills that adult learners need…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, COVID-19, Pandemics
Spaccarotella, Kim; Wheeler, Bridget; Mishra, Sasmita – Natural Sciences Education, 2023
Virtual gardening classes that started in response to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to attract participants. Little is known about characteristics that improve their effectiveness and enable participants to continue gardening. The purpose of this project was to pilot test a nutrition-focused, virtual container gardening program, obtain feedback…
Descriptors: Gardening, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Tett, Lyn – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
Community-based adult learning (CBAL) focuses on improving the quality of life for the most disadvantaged and has a different ideology, methods, and curriculum from mainstream education. This Scottish case-study investigated the main changes that had impacted on CBAL provision in the preceding three years. These were: a reduction in funding for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
Kalenda, Jan; Kocvarováa, Ilona; Boeren, Ellen – European Journal of Education, 2023
The impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on nonformal adult education has become a frequently discussed issue in lifelong learning. Nonformal adult education is understood here as all organised adult learning outside formal education that usually does not result in official certification. Many scholars have considered the pandemic as the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Participation, Barriers
Janet L. Eyring – Academic Questions, 2023
Politics and education have always been closely entwined, but recent interactions with colleagues in the author's field about the border crisis have convinced her that these individuals are either in complete accord with the idea of large numbers of immigrants crossing the U.S. border illegally or they are completely ignorant of the situation and…
Descriptors: Democracy, Adult Education, English (Second Language), COVID-19
The Impact of Immersive Scheduling on Student Learning and Success in an Australian Pathways Program
Elizabeth Goode; Suzi Syme; Johanna E. Nieuwoudt – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Immersive scheduling engages students in one or two subjects at a time over short teaching periods. While there is incipient evidence that immersive delivery can heighten academic outcomes in undergraduate education, much less is known about its effectiveness in pathways or access programs. This exploratory mixed-methods study investigated how a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Schedules, Scheduling, Academic Achievement
Pickard, Amy – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
This paper presents partial analysis from a comparative case study of two urban programs offering remote services to adult literacy learners during the pandemic. The focus of this qualitative analysis is the nature of digital engagement reported by adult learners identified as having reading EFLs 1 & 2. Data is derived from interviews…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Learner Engagement, Urban Schools
Homer, Damien – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on university students across the world. In a short period of time from 2020 to 2022, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) had to pivot their modes of delivery to ensure they could meet the needs of their students. The move to digital platforms has been challenging for students from all ages, but…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Experience, Pandemics, COVID-19
Sainz, Amanda D.; Wang, Chih-Wei – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2022
Although the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected communities across the globe, it also led to the expansion of digital learning opportunities for all. Adult Education and Literacy (AEL) service providers in Texas utilized this opportunity by creating a Distance Education Professional Development Center (DEPDC). This article discusses how the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Aleynikova, Ekaterina; Atay, Asli; James, Kathryn; Stevenson, Alex – Learning and Work Institute, 2022
Learning through life, for any reason and none, improves work, health, wellbeing and active citizenship. We've known the benefits of adult education for a long time -- at L&W we've been promoting them and making the case for widening access to learning for the past 100 years. Social prescribing to adult education could be a key tool to address…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Mental Health, COVID-19, Pandemics
Cheng, Kam Yuen – Journal of Educators Online, 2023
The idea of remote learning has allowed many learners to overcome the barriers of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in fulfilling learners' expectations. This study aims to investigate the challenges and strategies mature students, especially those career changers, were facing in construction engineering programmes during the pandemic…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Adult Students, Construction (Process), Engineering Education
Maware, Catherine; Parsley, David M.; Huang, Kun; Swan, Gerry M.; Akafuah, Nelson – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Online learning has recently surged due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Because of the pandemic, many universities were forced to move to online learning, and various online teaching and learning environments emerged, both asynchronous and synchronous. Objective: This study explores how a large university in the Southeastern United…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, Higher Education
Isaac Kofi Biney; Janet Azaglo – Open Education Studies, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the educational landscape, making exploration of blended learning (BL) instructional delivery important. Higher education institutions are navigating the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on instructional delivery. Using Accra Learning Centre as a case study, this article explores the experiences of adult…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Adult Students, Blended Learning