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Tarbutton, Tanya M.; Doyle, Lori B. – Athens Journal of Education, 2023
Higher education institutions must recognize the responsibility to support online adult learners as members of a larger global community and technological advancements have made this a reality. COVID-19 restrictions to in-person learning highlighted the need for online learning platforms that promote the benefits of teacher presence, consider the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Global Approach
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Lisa M. Baumgartner; Davin Carr-Chellman – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This article provides an overview of adult learning theory, focusing on the theories covered in this issue of New Directions in Adult and Continuing Education. In offering a brief synopsis of each article and reflecting on the ways adult learning theories have evolved since the first update was published in 1993, this article explains several…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Educational Change, Student Diversity
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Power, Thomas G.; Garcia, Karina Silva; Martinez, AnaMaria Diaz; Parker, Louise A.; Hidalgo-Mendez, Jackelyn; Ramos, Guadalupe – Prevention Science, 2022
"Madres Apoyando el Desarrollo Emocional de Sus Hijos" ("Mothers Supporting the Emotional Development of Their Children") is a parenting education program designed to help Latina mothers help their school-age children cope with stress. A previous randomized controlled trial, with a pre-post design, showed that the program had…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Mothers, Coping, Stress Management
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Sahin, Muhittin; Terzi Müftüoglu, Cennet; Ceylan, Savas; Atay, Salim – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Adults are independent learners and are expected to direct their own learning. Nowadays, there are many MOOC platforms preferred by adult learners. Many states have adapted to these developments and established an online learning platform in order to carry out the training and development activities of civil servants. The Presidency of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Independent Study
Nadija Kovacevic – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In the 22nd Century of the United States, student veterans' enrollment numbers have been increasing among higher education institutions. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore student veterans' experiences with the support services they have used and to identify which characteristics of support services student veterans find…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Student Experience, College Students, Student Personnel Services
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Tode, Tomoko – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This case study investigates a migrant adult's identity work in playful talk occurring spontaneously in a classroom for Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults (LESLLA). Based on 12 hours of video-recorded interactions among four learners and their teacher, I identified five playful episodes. This paper focuses on two episodes…
Descriptors: Adults, Migrants, Self Concept, Play
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Catherine Ferguson – Journal of Correctional Education, 2023
This autoethnographic work was written after the author had heard that teaching in the prison environment was challenging and difficult. Although she had previously worked in that environment for five years, she had not read the literature about being a prison educator and the comments made about prison being a difficult place to work were quite…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes
Patricia Mauldin Ross – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Women are the fastest growing population of veterans in the United States. When asked why they joined the military, women have overwhelming indicated they were seeking educational benefits; as such, the number of women veterans attending higher education has risen. While women veterans face many challenges, including physical and mental health…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Veterans Education, Barriers, Resilience (Psychology)
Willie Heath Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the decision-making process of school leaders in ALE settings when determining the resources they provide and whether the resources provided ensure that these students are successful in the classroom, graduate on time, or earn a high school equivalency diploma. In the study, there were 10…
Descriptors: Leaders, Nontraditional Education, Educational Environment, Educational Resources
Jason S. Colonies – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Education Center serves many adult learners that have the goal of receiving their high school equivalency. Adult learners face many barriers when pursuing this goal. The research in adult education focuses on the barriers that learners face and what drives them to succeed. There is limited research on what learners' perception of knowledge is.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, High School Equivalency Programs, Barriers, Student Experience
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Rick Hayman; Karl Wharton; Laura Bell; Livia Bird – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
Previous research has revealed how mature students are more likely to drop out of university education, achieve poorer degree outcomes and have greater family, financial, caring and work commitments to contend with than their younger peers. In response to calls for further empirical work on mature students' university experiences and informed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students
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Robert L. Moore; Woorin Hwang; Jennifer D. Moses – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
This systematic review examines the empirical literature published between 2015 and 2021 on mobile-based microlearning in adult learning contexts. The rapid shift to online learning in 2020 in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the need to explore flexible learning options for adult learners. The convenience of mobile-based…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Handheld Devices, Learning Activities, Electronic Learning
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Michelle Pavloff; Mary Ellen Labrecque; Jill Bally; Shelley Kirychuk; Gerri Lasiuk – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Purpose: Rural home care nurses require access to continuing nursing education to address the increasing complexity of client care needs. There is currently limited literature on continuing nursing education for rural home care nurses. The purpose of this study was to explore the continuing nursing education experiences of rural home care nurses.…
Descriptors: Nurses, Nursing Education, Professional Continuing Education, Rural Areas
Kelly Meadows – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The prevalence of late language emergence (LLE) in young children is high, comprising 10 to 20% of toddlers. Late language emergence refers to children who do not use at least 50 single words and 2-word phrases at the age of two. Current best practices for the under-three population with or at risk of having disabilities include the use of…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Toddlers, Caregivers, Intervention
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Péter Rácz; Ágnes Lukács – Cognitive Science, 2024
People learn language variation through exposure to linguistic interactions. The way we take part in these interactions is shaped by our lexical representations, the mechanisms of language processing, and the social context. Existing work has looked at how we learn and store variation in the ambient language. How this is mediated by the social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Hungarian, Language Processing
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