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Nightingale, Elena; Branum-Martin, Lee; Greenberg, Daphne – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
The patterns of skills in adults who have difficulty with reading may be different from those of children, and thus applying and interpreting methods of measurement may be complex. The goal of this study was to examine the relations among reading skills in this population, by modeling specific reading skills and method of measurement…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods
Xi Lin – Adult Learning, 2024
This qualitative study examines student learning experiences toward a student-developed case study activity for online discussion guided by a three-tier case method model. Forty-five students were recruited from four online adult education courses. Analysis of students' feedback shows that this activity leads to students' positive learning…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Adults, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Esther Prins; Davin Carr-Chellman – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
As a way to conclude, this article elaborates key themes that emerged from the collected articles in this volume. Each article carries its own important message about the role of adult education in confronting White Christian nationalism, while here, Prins and Carr-Chellman offer a thematic interpretation of the volume as a whole. These themes…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Whites, Christianity, Nationalism
Lena Patterson; Gary Hepburn – Distance Education, 2025
Although there is no globally accepted definition to guide micro-credential activity in higher education, many seek to boost the employability prospects of earners. To do this well, micro-credentials need to indicate skills and competencies. Assessment ensures those skills and competencies are verified, enabling trust and communication in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Microcredentials, Competency Based Education
Jawaheer, Mangala – Studying Teacher Education, 2023
As a teacher educator of literature methodology in Mauritius, this arts-based self-study is rooted in the need to improve my professional practice. It emanated from a critical incident during the COVID pandemic when I used blackout poetry during an online synchronous session with in-service teachers for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Teaching Methods, Literature Appreciation
Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza – Adult Learning, 2025
This article, a conceptual and theoretical piece, opens a window on "playful learning" as a philosophy of education and a suite of diverse pedagogical approaches, methods, and techniques. The paper criticizes the serious ambience of adult education with its high levels of instrumentalism and performativity. It argues for playful learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Play, Ideology, Adult Learning
Jiyoon Jung; Jieun You; Daesang Kim – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Digital technology is used to improve the quality of life for the growing number of older adults in the United States, but it also exacerbated the digital divide between generations and regions. Digital literacy programs effectively designed for older adults have a potential to mitigate this issue; however, sustaining an effectively designed…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Older Adults, Program Effectiveness, Self Esteem
Meenakshi Sharma – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
This study examines the effect of nature journaling on engagement patterns among non-traditional adult learners enrolled in an elementary science methods course. The research aims to bridge a gap in the existing literature by investigating the effectiveness of nature journaling in enhancing learning experiences for this specific demographic.…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Journal Writing, Adult Learning, Theory Practice Relationship
Belzer, Alisa, Ed.; Dashew, Brian, Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2023
Adults seek out learning for very different reasons in different contexts, and this book is intended to support adult educators' development in responding to this rich array. There is no single way to be an adult learner, and so it should not be surprising that there is no single way to be an adult educator. However, the authors believe that all…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Andragogy, Adult Educators, Teaching Methods
Erin I. Walsh; Will J. Grant; Ginny M. Sargent – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
With their increasing popularity, there is a need for more research clarifying the potential strengths and weaknesses of the comic format for education. The panelled comic format may be particularly effective for educating adults on the scientific aspects of processes (sequences of events, occurring over time, in a series of discrete steps). We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Cartoons, Learning Strategies
Jade G. Winn; Melissa L. Miller; Jane J. Kim; Robert A. Rosas; Ashley R. Temm; Ruth Wallach – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2025
With 22 states recently passing legislation attacking diversity programs and initiatives on college campuses, it is now, more than ever, important for educators to find a way to protect and foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism (DEIA+AR) in postsecondary education in order to prepare graduates to participate in a…
Descriptors: Library Education, Competence, Diversity, Inclusion
Livingston, Manuel; Cummings-Clay, Denise – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2023
Community-college professors possess knowledge in distinct disciplines and have varied experiences that they encompass in their college classrooms. Additionally, creating effective environments for teaching and learning require these assets from instructors to fulfill their curriculum needs. Teaching is a multidimensional and complex activity that…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Andragogy, Teaching Methods, Community Colleges
Brandon W. Kliewer – Adult Learning, 2024
A gap often exists between adult leadership learning and development practice. This gap seems particularly pronounced when considering training through a collective, practice, and constructionist theoretical lens. Leadership developers need to address this gap in their teaching methods if they are to support learning capable of responding to…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Adult Education, Comprehension, Civics
Halli-Tierney, Anne D.; McKinney, Robert E., Jr.; Gold, Allyson E.; Allen, Rebecca S.; Carroll, Dana G. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2021
This article focuses on the use of interprofessional case discussions as an interactive learning approach to cultivate professional identity formation among multiple professions while simultaneously promoting geriatric education and enhancing learning about diverse disciplines needed for care of the older adult.
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Geriatrics, Older Adults, Educational Gerontology
Nicola A. Meade – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Higher education faculty members are increasingly being asked to defend their teaching methods with research-based support. This article offers such evidence through a randomized control-group pretest-posttest study that examined whether a newly created andragogy method, Forming Optimal Classroom Environments (FOCE), increased master's students'…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Teaching Methods, Andragogy