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Zagir, Togtokhmaa; Dorner, Helga – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Competent adult learning facilitators play a vital role in improving the quality of adult learning programmes. This article thus explores common and core competences of adult learning facilitators from the perspective of key stakeholders, such as facilitators, adult learners and administrators. By synthesising previous international studies, we…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Byers, Ernest Jasper James – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The research aim is to contribute to scholarly inquiry on best practices for institutional leaders in health care organizations who are leading improvement work. The goal is to investigate how a specific sustainable continuous improvement methodology--lean management (LM)--is experienced by leaders charged with implementing it to improve health…
Descriptors: Health Services, Best Practices, Adult Learning, Administrator Attitudes
Jacob D. Lemon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As graduate and professional programs internationalize to provide students with global competencies and skills, more graduate students are participating in education abroad programs. Graduate students represent a growing portion of the total population participating in education abroad, with short-term, faculty-directed (STFD) programs expanding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduate Students, Study Abroad, Graduate Study
Robyn Kelton; Irina Tenis – McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2024
Research has established the vital role administrators play in the success and sustainability of high-quality early childhood care and education (ECEC) programs. However, many center-based program administrators assume their leadership roles by being promoted from a teaching position. Consequently, while they may assume their administrative role…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Professional Development, Administrator Education, Career Development
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Falcao, Rita; Fernandes, Luis – Open Praxis, 2016
Creating a course for teaching project management online in a full online distance-learning environment was a challenge. Working with adult learners from different continents that want to complete a Master degree was an additional challenge. This paper describes how different MOOCs were used to learn about teaching -(meta) e-learning. MOOCs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Administration, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses
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Fitzgerald, Carlton J., Ed.; Laurian-Fitzgerald, Simona, Ed.; Popa, Carmen, Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
As traditional classroom settings are transitioning to online environments, teachers now face the challenge of using this medium to promote effective learning strategies, especially when teaching older age groups. Because adult learners bring a different set of understandings and skills to education than younger students, such as more job and life…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Learning Strategies, Adult Learning, Adult Education