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Viktor Wang, Editor – IGI Global, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration in andragogical education offers significant enhancements to the learning experience for adult learners. By utilizing AI-powered platforms, instructors can provide personalized learning paths that adapt to the unique needs, interests, and goals of each individual. These systems can analyze performance data…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Integration
Plummer, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study focused on investigating the background, experiences, challenges and training of current online language teachers. An online survey was sent and completed by a total of 264 current online language teachers consisting of a total of 40 questions. Findings show online language teachers are highly experienced in face-to-face classrooms as…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Kaatrakoski, Heli; Littlejohn, Allison; Hood, Nina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
Open education, including the use of open educational resources (OER) and the adoption of open education practice, has the potential to challenge educators to change their practice in fundamental ways. This paper forms part of a larger study focusing on higher education educators' learning from and through their engagement with OER. The first part…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Resource Units, Shared Resources and Services, Open Education
Beaven, Tita, Ed.; Rosell-Aguilar, Fernando, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2021
The Innovative Language Pedagogy Report presents new and emerging approaches to language teaching, learning, and assessment in school, further education, and higher education settings. Researchers and practitioners provide 22 research-informed, short articles on their chosen pedagogy, with examples and resources. The report is jargon-free, written…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Southall, Jane; Wason, Hilary – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2016
Engaging less academically qualified Higher Education students being taught within a Further Education setting, who have weaker study skills and little experience of independent learning, is challenging. Confidence and motivation levels are often low and they feel overwhelmed. Effective assessment design is crucial and needs to capitalise on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Education, Independent Study, Student Motivation
Bass, Christa – American Biology Teacher, 2012
It has become apparent through the work of many researchers and practitioners that adults learn differently than their younger counterparts in the educational system. This is especially important to those educators teaching in colleges and universities in the sciences. Biology education in the post-secondary setting is inundated with teachers who…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, College Instruction, Adult Education
Reushle, Shirley, Ed.; Antonio, Amy, Ed.; Keppell, Mike, Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
The discipline of education is a multi-faceted system that must constantly integrate new strategies and procedures to ensure successful learning experiences. Enhancements in education provide learners with greater opportunities for growth and advancement. "Open Learning and Formal Credentialing in Higher Education: Curriculum Models and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Education, Student Centered Learning, Open Education
Monaghan, Catherine H. – Journal of Management Education, 2011
Teaching students self-directed learning skills provides benefits that outlast individual courses. An individual self-directed approach is insufficient, however, given the fast pace of change students encounter in their professional lives. Communities of practice combine self-directed and collaborative learning to meet the challenges of today's…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Administrator Education, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
Harmon, Wendy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As the number of enrollments in online adult education continues to increase, instructional designers must address the issue of how to foster the desire for sustained and enduring learning; and more importantly, prepare students for this lifelong learning process. The purpose of this study was to obtain consensus on an integrated set of components…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Adult Education, Enrollment Trends, Instructional Design
Simm, David; Marvell, Alan; Schaaf, Rebecca; Winlow, Heather – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2012
Over the last decade, some UK Geography Departments have diversified their range of courses to offer Foundation degrees (Fds), providing students with alternative routes through higher education (HE). These courses are delivered either offsite at further education colleges (FECs), embedded within an undergraduate programme at higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Study Skills, Adult Education, Vocational Education
Wang, Victor X., Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
In the twenty-first century, learning and the definition of education is changing. New digital, online, and social tools have the ability to transform the classroom and engage learners like never before. In the midst of this technological revolution, it is crucial for educators and administrators to be able to gauge the impact of digital tools on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Research, Andragogy
Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed.; Avoseh, Mejai, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Undergraduate Students
Kuhn, Barbel, Ed.; Cavana, Maria Luisa Perez, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Using constructivist principles and autonomous learning techniques the ELP has pioneered innovative and cutting edge approaches to learning languages that can be applied to learning across the spectrum. Although articles on the success of the ELP project have appeared in some academic journals, "Perspectives from the European Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Independent Study, Educational Innovation
Boshier, Roger; Huang, Yan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
Staff and students grumble about how research allegedly obscures the merits of exemplary teaching at universities. Modern efforts to move teaching from the periphery to the centre of the university were marked by books on the scholarship of teaching (SoT). Starting in the 1990s it became possible for academic staff to cite their SoT in claims for…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Independent Study, Teacher Attitudes
Sweet, John; Ellaway, Rachel – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
In recent years a combination of ever more flexible and sophisticated Web technologies and an explosion in the quantity of online content has sparked learning technologists around the world to pursue the promise of the "reusable learning object" or RLO with the idea that RLOs could be reused in different educational contexts, thereby…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Heuristics, Educational Technology, Learning Activities