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Karina Tachihara; Adele E. Goldberg – Language Learning, 2025
Adults learning a new language tend to judge unconventional utterances more leniently than fluent speakers do; ratings on acceptable utterances, however, tend to align more closely with fluent speakers. This asymmetry raises a question as to whether unconventional utterances can be statistically preempted by conventional utterances for adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Sentences, Undergraduate Students
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Fa Zhang; Yuyan Xia; Yu Wang; Jinglu Liu; Jie Xia; Chin-Chih Chen – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Open universities can improve learning outcomes and overall satisfaction among adult learners by addressing and enhancing online learning motivation. By applying latent profile analysis (N = 494) and adult learner interviews (n = 16), this mixed methods study aimed to better understand adult learners' motivation profiles in online learning…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Electronic Learning, Learning Motivation
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Kalpana Gupta – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to understand the ways in which meditation practice can be used as an online pedagogical method based on adult learners' experiences with various forms of meditation practices. To arrive at this purpose, the researcher found it necessary to gather data about frequency of use, preferences, and related transformative…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Adult Learning, Biofeedback
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Aquino, Katherine – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
The purpose of this paper was to explore the experiences of adult learners enrolled in a non-traditional undergraduate academic program. This project examined if students minimised their disability in the academic environment, thus not making use of institutionally available accommodations. Through an explanatory case study design, findings…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Adult Learning, Undergraduate Students, Nontraditional Education
Phillips, Kristen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study collected and examined the beliefs, opinions, and perceptions of Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) at three public universities in the Pacific Northwest. This study used a qualitative multiple-case study design and provided the opportunity to collectively compare data collected on each campus and across the three campuses. Through…
Descriptors: College Students, Prior Learning, Student Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes
Glen Joseph Redpath – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative study took a focused look at Fordham University's adult college, now referred to as Fordham's School of Professional and Continuing Studies. The study explored the history of Fordham's School of Professional and Continuing Studies, first established in 1944 as the School of Adult Education and followed it through its 78-year…
Descriptors: Educational History, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Colleges
Deborah Wiles – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explored how young adult students below the age of twenty-five perceived their learning experiences in adult classroom environments. Participants were enrolled in regionally accredited, undergraduate, on campus adult programs. Twenty-five interviews were conducted with students who had been enrolled for at least two semesters, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Adult Students, Young Adults, Age
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Isaac Kofi Biney; Inusah Salifu – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
This article focuses on a case study of adult learners in Accra Learning Center (ALC) to explore limiting factors to learning in higher education institutions (HEIs) using distance education (DE) mode in Ghana. Educated adults possess experiences that help them take up leadership roles and transform communities. However, limiting factors including…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Learning, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries
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Lisa Mckenzie – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
Higher education should be a social good for everyone and, despite the intentions of university policy on inclusion and diversity with schemes on widening participation, the truth is that for working-class students, university is still a place where they encounter prejudices and feelings of exclusion. This article uses the method of…
Descriptors: Working Class, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Higher Education
Naeemah Giovanni Hardison – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research indicates that older adult learners are faced with a multitude of obstacles and challenges during their experiences as students in higher education. A primary obstacle faced by non-traditional students is adjusting to the use of technology, compared to younger individuals, which is a trend that was exacerbated during the pandemic.…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Older Adults, Adult Students, College Students
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David William Stoten – Adult Learning, 2025
This paper reports on the coping strategies of mature female students whilst studying a Foundation Programme at a Business School. In recent years, research has focussed less on the problems that confront adult learners and more on how they exercise personal agency and cope with the multifarious challenges of combining study with part-time…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Business Schools
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Michael Agyemang Adarkwah – Adult Learning, 2025
Adult learners are a neglected species in the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) era. The sweeping changes brought by GenAI in the educational arena have implications for adult learning. GenAI in education will usher in a world of adult learning that will be radically different from its predecessor. However, how adult learners will apply…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Natural Language Processing, Adult Learning
Rosalind Barnes Fowler – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As the number of traditional-aged students steadily declines in the United States, colleges and universities must seek to attract and enroll the large number of adults who have some college but no degree. This research sought to understand how one southern mid-sized institution recruited and enrolled a consistent number of adult learners over…
Descriptors: Leadership Responsibility, Nontraditional Students, Student Recruitment, Adult Students
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Teoh, George Boon Sai; Liau, Agnes Wei Lin – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2023
Students face various barriers in learning English via distance education. The purpose of this explanatory mixed methods study was to collect quantitative and qualitative data regarding students' emotional intelligence (EI) and the situational barriers (SB) they faced in learning English via distance education. In phase one, 238 students…
Descriptors: Distance Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Emotional Intelligence
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Ellen Wasserman; Daniel Sparks; Haleh Azimi – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
Adult learners, including those who are employed at least part-time, have children or other family responsibilities, and are older than 25 years can benefit from the flexibility and convenience of online courses. In community colleges, adult learners enroll in online courses at a higher rate than in-person courses, but their success rates are low,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Community College Students, Student Needs
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