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Daniela Coelho; Richa Goyal; Sullay Kanu; Kathryn Swift; Shannon Glasgow – Adult Learning, 2025
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) has expanded to support increasingly economic and technologically competitive environments, often governed by Adult Learning and Education (ALE) principles. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), however, despite the importance given to CPD, the field of ALE remains underdeveloped. Bearing this in mind, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Skills, Professional Development, Allied Health Occupations
Hidetsugu Suto; Qianran Wang – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Japan, like many countries, is facing problems with an aging society, and lifelong learning is becoming more and more important. To provide older adults with the opportunity to enroll in lifelong learning programs, it is essential to offer suitable programs. However, designing learning programs for older adults is not easy because they may have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Older Adults, Educational Opportunities
Ashley A. Carroll – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The three articles included in this dissertation are connected through theory and practice. Study one identifies the factors influencing Extension agents' participation in supplemental professional development opportunities using Ajzen's (1985) theory of planned behavior. Study two was a systematic investigation of Extension personnel's…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Professional Development, Program Evaluation, Adult Learning
Sidra Noreen; Zafar Iqbal – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness of social practice approach by integrating social practices along with modern teaching strategies, and teacher training to address the challenge of low academic achievement among adult learners in basic literacy programs. For a 4-month experiment, two of a metropolitan city's fourteen adult literacy centres…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adult Literacy
Amanda Bastoni; Luis Pérez; Cassandra Sell – Adult Literacy Education, 2024
Adult education instructors are as diverse as the students they teach. Their professional backgrounds, training, licenses, and modalities of teaching (online, in person, open vs. closed enrollment, etc.) vary widely, which can make the planning of meaningful, effective professional development challenging. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Individualized Instruction, Pacing, Faculty Development
Alisha Koch; Susanne Wisshak – International Journal of Training and Development, 2025
Although continuous vocational education and training (CVET) trainers are relevant stakeholders who can initiate and support transfer, they have received little attention in the context of transfer research, especially with respect to their transfer knowledge. In this study, we investigated the extent to which the transfer knowledge of CVET…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Workplace Learning, Trainers, Transfer of Training
Heather Ebba Maib; Laura Holyoke – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Trauma-informed practices have emerged as a promising approach to fostering equitable and inclusive learning environments. Initially applied in human services and K-12 education, these practices are expanding into adult and continuing education due to the pervasive nature of trauma. As the adoption of a trauma-informed approach grows, so does the…
Descriptors: Trauma, Inclusion, Instructional Design, Access to Education
Wendy Hiew; Jill Murray – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This paper presents an enhanced evaluation framework for teacher professional development programmes, which is based on one originally proposed by Huber in 2011. This paper draws on a study on the Professional Up-skilling of English Language Teachers (ProELT) programme in Sabah (Borneo), Malaysia. The study adopted a mixed methods exploratory…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Faculty Development, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Poh Kiong Tee; Tat-Huei Cham; Eugene Cheng-Xi Aw; Adham Khudaykulov; Xiaoyu Zhang – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: Digitalisation is reshaping the learning process, shifting it towards personalisation and online learning, and fuelling the growth of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and micro-credentials. Despite being a popular global trend, limited studies have looked at micro-credentials and their impact on learners' behavioural outcomes. The…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Student Recruitment, Student Participation, Costs
Mary McGovern; Russell Crank; Orié Green – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Online modes of study are increasingly prevalent in higher education, including university-enabling programs. As student cohorts diversify, access to individualised and holistic support strategies is increasingly important for students to expeditiously transition into higher education. On-campus provision of academic advising, while an effective…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Academic Advising, Computer Mediated Communication, College Readiness
Wanaporn Anuntaseree; Uthaiwan Kongkanin; Kanokpan Ruangnapa; Kantara Saelim; Pharsai Prasertsan – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Legislative smoking bans that prohibit smoking in public places have successfully reduced passive smoking in public areas. However, smokers only partially adhere to smoking restrictions in their homes. Young children are particularly vulnerable to exposure to tobacco smoke because they spend more time at home. In this study, we designed an…
Descriptors: Smoking, Telecommunications, Counseling Techniques, Intervention
Sarath Withanarachchi Samaranayake – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
This study aims to assess the impact of online tutoring on oral English fluency in Thai adult learners who have had only primary education in their native language but have no formal education in English. The research involved 34 adult learners participating in online hourly tutoring sessions over six months. Pre- and post-tests were used to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Tutors, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries
RTI International, 2024
Adult education programs play a critical role in preparing immigrants and New Americans (multilingual learners) for employment by building English language skills and supporting workforce preparation and training. Addressing multilingual learners' economic integration needs, one of the three pillars of immigrant integration, along with civic and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Federal Legislation