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Zi-Gang Ge; Qing Li – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The present study explores the impact of different levels of competition involved in gamified learning on adult e-learners' intrinsic motivation, learning engagement, and language learning performance. One hundred and twenty participants were evenly and randomly assigned to two groups. A gamified learning procedure with a higher level of…
Descriptors: Gamification, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Electronic Learning
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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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Wong, Adam; Lee, Daisy; Chan, Catherine – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Taking courses by continuing education (CE) providers is one of the main ways for adults to learning digital skills. CE is provided in either face-to-face (F2F) or online distance learning (ODL) mode. While F2F courses are natural and well-understood, ODL is flexible and less expensive. However, ODL lacks the natural teacher-student and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Continuing Education, Digital Literacy