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Direct linkAnu Lainio – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
This article explores the normative representations of higher education students in seven films and television series from four European countries. Drawing on the concept of the 'independent learner' as an 'ideal construction', I demonstrate how these texts offer complex and at times paradoxical representations of who gets positioned as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Films, Television, Independent Study
Strobl, Carola; Jacobs, Geert – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
In this article, we set out to assess QuADEM (Quality Assessment of Digital Educational Material), one of the latest methods for evaluating online language learning courseware. What is special about QuADEM is that the evaluation is based on observing the actual usage of the online courseware and that, from a checklist of 12 different components,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Video Technology, Feedback (Response)
Beitler, Michael A.; Mitlacher, Lars W. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) of business students in Germany and the USA and their attitudes towards information sharing and to ascertain implications for workplace learning. Design/methodology/approach: This empirical study used a survey research design.…
Descriptors: Research Design, Learning Readiness, Independent Study, Student Attitudes
Yoshimoto, Keiichi; Inenaga, Yuki; Yamada, Hiroshi – European Journal of Education, 2007
This article analyses the kinds of pedagogical approaches in universities that are provided for young and mature students and produce relevant outcomes for them in Germany, the UK and Japan. Andragogy is a concept of pedagogical approaches for adult learners in lifelong learning, but it should be empirically examined now in higher education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Maturity (Individuals), Outcomes of Education, Independent Study
PDF pending restorationStraka, Gerald A. – 1995
The structure and validity of Guglielmino's Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS) have been examined repeatedly. In 1979, Mourad and Torrance investigated the construct validity of the SDLRS in a study involving a random sample of 684 of the 1,500 students enrolled in the University of Georgia's Program on Gifted/Talented Education. In…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
