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Roe, Lisa – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Service-Learning is a form of experiential learning where faculty integrate a service or community engagement component into academic coursework. Supported by a growing body of literature documenting the impact of service-learning on undergraduate students as a high-impact practice in the United States, the scholarship and practice of…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Service Learning, Guidelines, Teaching Methods
Kwapong, Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
COVID-19 has brought surprises in the educational landscape. Educational institutions had to hurriedly migrate all teaching, learning and assessment activities to online platforms. Such was the case of adult learners who had signed on to the access course for entrance into the University of Ghana. This study sought to find out how the e-learning…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Gender Differences, Educational Technology
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
Iloh, Constance – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
Online coursework is dramatically changing the higher education landscape, particularly for adult learners. And while research notes the way these courses increase college opportunity for post-traditional students, they have poor learning and completion out-comes at many of the institutions to which older students frequently enroll. The author…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Adult Learning, Community Colleges, Online Courses
Owusu-Agyeman, Yaw; Fourie-Malherbe, Magda; Frick, Liezel – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
Adult learners have unique educational needs that require attention from Higher Education Institutions, facilitators and industry. While several theories and policies have been developed to address the bourgeoning educational challenges confronting adult learners in Higher Education Institutions, not much has been achieved in the wake of growing…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Higher Education
Gravani, Maria N. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This paper presents a critical account of the extent and the ways in which learner-centred education approaches are used as a tool for enhancing adult learning in distance learning universities as well as the conditions and restrictions they face. The exploration is illustrated by qualitative data from interviews with eight adult educators and 16…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Adult Learning, Distance Education, Universities
Stamouli, Lamprini; Valkanos, Efthymios; Economou, Andreas – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
This article made use of the model "Revised adult attitudes toward continuing education scale" (RAACES) to investigate the attitudes of adult learners in Vocational Training Centers (VTC/KEK) in Greece. The work aims to confirm the scale-measuring attitudes of adults resulting from the adoption of the RAACES model. Based on the results…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Vocational Training Centers
Geertshuis, Susan – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
In New Zealand there are four university-based centres for continuing education which provide non-credit short courses. This paper presents data from a survey which was conducted with the intention of building understanding of the cohort of learners who attend short non-credit courses, to better understand their views and values and to determine…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Students