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Direct linkPeterkin, Claudette – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The aim of this study was to delve into the barriers to learning experienced by 2e students with autism through in-depth interviews with seven 2e students and four professors from a northeastern university. All participants were in a specialized program for 2e students with autism and took classes with the general student population. Results…
Descriptors: Barriers, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Student Attitudes, Learning Processes
Jenna T. Malnar – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Since 1984, many animal science postsecondary institutions had incorporated experiential learning into courses and programs, including equine programs. Even with the incorporated experiential learning, equine experts were finding students postgraduation were substandard with equine technical skills experiences. Although many studies had addressed…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Animals, Animal Husbandry, Postsecondary Education
Shadrack Agyekum – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to examine the lived experiences of students with disabilities at Golden Technical Institute (a pseudonym) in the eastern belt of Ghana. The theories guiding this study were Hosking's critical disability theory and Tinto's student persistence theory. This study sought to understand…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Jill Cathleen Woods – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) presents postsecondary educators with a conundrum: how to design and support small-group activities without stifling deep and meaningful learning. The literature indicates that students are not consistently practicing higher-order cognitive activities, educators are not reliably designing or…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Prior Learning
Dungy, Kimberlea – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Mobile devices have evolved from being a simple tool for communication to an indispensable "appendage." Mobile devices link users to various applications, cameras, virtual and offline communities that we depend on daily. Mobile devices have impacted the way post-secondary and adults learn in higher educational settings. Mobile learning…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Skill Development, Postsecondary Education
Chen, Fang – ProQuest LLC, 2017
My dissertation research investigated an adult learner's experience in an online competency-based education (CBE) bachelor's degree program. The purpose of my study was to understand how CBE was transforming the practices of traditional post-secondary education and how CBE was serving the needs of students, particularly nontraditional adult…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Adult Learning, Postsecondary Education, Competency Based Education
