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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
Nicki Benson – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
Advanced adult Indigenous language speakers are essential in Indigenous language revitalization (ILR). As first language speakers age and pass away, communities increasingly depend on adults with high proficiency to carry the language forward (Fishman, 1991; Hinton, 2011; W.H. Wilson, 2018). Yet, few studies in ILR focus on adult learners, and…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Canada Natives, Tribes, Language Maintenance
Sasha Ruffins – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The effect of gamified elements among adult learners in online post-secondary education classrooms is essential to determining the needs of each learner and if they vary from generation to generation and affect their playful experience and academic success. The gap in research exists as this is yet to be determined. The research questions tested…
Descriptors: Gamification, Electronic Learning, Play, Generational Differences
April Dawn Sanders – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Educators are often looking for ways to increase engagement and academic achievement in their classrooms; therefore, the problem addressed in this study is the decrease in academic achievement caused by a low level of classroom engagement amongst high school seniors. The purpose of this qualitative action research study is to increase academic…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Educational Principles, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement
Emily R. VanZoest; Dion T. Harry; Micara Lewis-Sessoms; Audrey J. Jaeger – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
A significant demographic shift in community colleges reveals that more than half of enrolled students are adults aged 25 and older. In response, states are instituting reconnect programs aimed at recruiting and reengaging adult learners. Despite these initiatives, existing processes and practices within community colleges often inadequately…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Adult Learning, College Presidents
Suzanne L. Shatila – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
Increasingly, nontraditional students (over age 25, employed, parenting) are enrolling in universities offering online options. Online programs appeal to those needing flexible educational options, yet attrition remains high for adult learners and students enrolled in online education. Building on previous research, this study examines…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Electronic Learning, Nontraditional Students, Geographic Location
Shi, Yuewei; Lin, Xi – Research in Learning Technology, 2021
Online learning has become a prevailing trend among adult learners. Therefore, this study investigated the learning time preference and the relationship between the course completion and learning activities among adult learners based on data from one online learning platform. Results indicate that a periodical fluctuation of participating online…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
Sidra Noreen; Zafar Iqbal – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness of social practice approach by integrating social practices along with modern teaching strategies, and teacher training to address the challenge of low academic achievement among adult learners in basic literacy programs. For a 4-month experiment, two of a metropolitan city's fourteen adult literacy centres…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adult Literacy
Patrice Sentino – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Since the beginning of the 21st century, higher education has changed drastically with instructional technology. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to investigate the perceived lived experiences among ten adult learners and how academic motivation influenced their learning in a technology-based learning environment. The…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Educational Environment
Sheets, DeAnna J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In response to legislation from the federal government and the rising number of ELs in public schools many school districts are searching for ways to ensure ELs are making adequate progress on English proficiency. The problem is defining the best method for teaching ELs in the mainstream classroom is difficult. The current gap in educational…
Descriptors: Andragogy, English Language Learners, Grounded Theory, Language Teachers
Erica Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The advising experience of adult learner's academic and social engagement at community colleges. Based on the literature, it was not known how adult learners in an associate's program describe their advising experience with respect to social and academic engagement at community colleges in the southern United States. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Associate Degrees, Academic Advising, Adult Learning
Lin, Xi; Wang, Chih-hsuan – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2018
Previous studies indicated there was a difference in goal orientations and learning strategies between adult and traditional learners. However, limited studies investigated the relationship between achievement goal orientations (AGO) and self-regulated learning (SRL) between adult and traditional learners. Hence, the current study examined the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Metacognition, Adult Learning
Hsiao-Hui Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of the study was to explore the experiences of women over 50 pursuing a college degree in Taiwan. Specifically, this study explored the motivations, barriers, support, strategies, and benefits of these women upon attending college in Taiwan. Women's development and learning theories, socialist feminism, and the concept of productive…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Females, Womens Education, Grounded Theory
Shalena Barber Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
According to Donavan (2014) National Center for Education Statistics shows 8.4 million enrolled in higher education in 2010 were nontraditional learners, and the projected enrollment will reach 10.3 million by 2021. Adult learners will constitute over 41% of post-secondary students in the next five years. Institutions have seen an increase in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement, Nontraditional Students
Sherman, Tyrone – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Researchers have shown that effective professional learning communities (PLCs) enhance the ability of educators to improve student outcomes at schools, including schools with a student body of more than 75% students of color. Educators and policy makers need to understand more about how educators in these school settings experience PLC work. The…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers