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Wendy Nuis; Mien Segers; Simon Beausaert – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
To keep up with technological advances and macro-economic trends, higher education has increasingly focused on developing students' employability competences through mentoring programs. However, measuring the effectiveness of such mentoring programs has remained difficult, because many mentoring measurements are not validated or grounded in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Employment Potential, College Programs, Higher Education
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Adam Bush – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
College Unbound is a degree-completion college working to ensure all adult learners are valued as scholar-practitioners and have access to a bachelor's degree. As College Unbound has developed over the past decade, they have tried to interrogate what education for the public good means. College Unbound advances the public good inside three…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Postsecondary Education
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Ira Slaboda – TESL-EJ, 2024
Autonomous learning in EFL refers to learner involvement, reflection and target language use. Teachers play a vital role of mediators and facilitators in self-regulated method. Thus, their perception of self-regulated practices dictates their implementation of this approach. While research has predominantly focused on inadequate management of…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Self Management, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods
Minghui Hou – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The United States is the top destination for Chinese international students, receiving around 372,532 students from China from the academic year 2019 to 2020. The host institutions and countries have benefited from economic gains, diverse cultures, global competence, and human capital. The motivation of recruiting international students is framed…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Personal Autonomy, Racism
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Schillaci, Rebecca S.; Parker, Caroline E.; Grigal, Meg; Paiewonsky, Maria – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Most youth in transition services with labels of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have poorer employment outcomes than their peers with other or without disabilities. One alternative approach to address this challenge provides youth with IDD access to transition services in the context of a college or university campus.…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, College Programs, Students with Disabilities, Secondary School Students
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Hachem, Hany; Nikkola, Eeva; Zaidan, Amani – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
Context: In Lebanon, older adults face socioeconomic challenges that are expected to worsen due to an increase in older adult population, chronic governmental neglect, institutionalised ageism and a lack of educational and social gerontologists. Consequently, local older adults are in dire need for social change, which can be initiated through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Gerontology, Social Change, Older Adults
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Perrin, Jeffrey – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2014
This study describes three collegiate programs that have a high interest in creating engaging learning environments outside of the classroom. The three settings in this study are a three-year degree granting college focusing on internship-based learning, a nationally recognized service-learning program at a private university, and a small private…
Descriptors: College Programs, Learner Engagement, Internship Programs, Service Learning
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Daniel, Brad; Bobilya, Andrew J.; Kalisch, Kenneth R.; McAvoy, Leo H. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2014
This article explores the current state of knowledge regarding the use of autonomous student experiences (ASE) in outdoor and adventure education (OAE) programs. ASE are defined as components (e.g., solo, final expedition) in which participants have a greater measure of choice and control over the planning, execution, and outcomes of their…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Outdoor Education, Personal Autonomy, Knowledge Level
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Nedbalová, Eva; Greenacre, Luke; Schulz, John – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2014
This paper uses the Economic Market mechanisms and the 4P Marketing Mix as lenses to review the context of UK higher education (HE) and to explore the relationship between the market and marketing disciplines and practice. Four Economic Market mechanisms--autonomy, competition, price and information--are contrasted with the four Ps of marketing:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Recruitment, Marketing
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Downing, Jillian J. – International Journal of Training Research, 2017
This paper reports on a doctoral study that investigated an alternative pedagogical approach in an online VET teacher-education course offered at a mid-sized university in Australia. Students in the course were mature-aged and adding study to their role as in-service VET teachers. Building on previous research, a set of design principles was…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Educational Principles, Theory Practice Relationship, Doctoral Programs
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Huang, Xiaoxia; Chandra, Aruna; DePaolo, Concetta; Cribbs, Jennifer; Simmons, Lakisha – Open Learning, 2015
This study was an initial attempt to operationalise Moore's transactional distance theory by developing and validating an instrument measuring the related constructs: dialogue, structure, learner autonomy and transactional distance. Data were collected from 227 online students and analysed through an exploratory factor analysis. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Student Surveys
Haslerig, Siduri – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Using narrative data collected through semi-structured phone interviews with eleven "graduate(d) student athletes," this dissertation examines participants' academic trajectories and experiences. Theories regarding role-conflict, attribution, college choice and career maturity undergird analysis. Findings are divided into four chapters:…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, College Seniors, College Athletics, Athletes
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Willison, John – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2007
The perceived importance and the prevalence of academic development programs worldwide mean that it is critical that characteristics essential for the success of such programs be identified and incorporated. This article recognises the manifold perspectives on identifying such characteristics, but argues that if it is desirable that an academic…
Descriptors: College Programs, Ethics, Educational Principles, Strategic Planning
Kintgen-Andrews, Jean – 1987
A study was conducted to determine what progress is made by nursing students during their first two years of study in the development of affective characteristics closely associated with professional level practice. Two affective characteristics associated with professionalism were studied; autonomy and assertiveness. The Inner Directed Scale of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Assertiveness, Attitude Change, College Programs
Benninghoff, Diane – Currents, 1991
Although academic seminars offered on homecoming weekend have always been popular at Colorado College, the centerpiece of the alumni continuing education program is a course on "Freedom and Authority." Registrants for the two-hour class receive reading materials through the mail, a faculty member leads small-group discussion of the…
Descriptors: Alumni Education, College Programs, Continuing Education, Democratic Values
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