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Direct linkSpear Ellinwood, Karen Courtenay – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study explores the web-navigation practices of adult learners in higher education and re-conceptualizes the concept of the organizing circumstance of self-managed learning, originated by Spear and Mocker (1984). The theoretical framework draws on funds of knowledge theory from a cultural historical perspective and elaborates a Vygotskian…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Learning Experience, Internet
Tiemann, Philip W.; Markle, Susan M. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1990
Discussion of interaction in computer-based tutorials (CBT) focuses on a study that compared the performance of adult learners from training with three CBTs that varied the level of interactivity. The degrees of learner control, system control, and domain control are discussed, and the Lotus spreadsheet tutorials used are described. (24…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Analysis of Covariance, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Peer reviewedWilson, Eve – Computers & Education, 1994
Discusses the need to provide learner-directed computer-assisted language learning (CALL) for mature students to perfect their English. Topics addressed include expert procedural knowledge, including lexical, grammatical, and discourse skills; and expert domain knowledge, including dictionaries and thesauri, tagged corpora, and discipline-specific…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Dictionaries
Bates, Reid A.; And Others – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1996
Examines principles of computer-based instructional design found in performance improvement/human resources development literature and their applicability to adult learning in the workplace. Topics include learner control, feedback, screen design, use of group methods, and computer anxiety. Contains 93 references. (JMV)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction, Design Requirements
Peer reviewedBixler, Brett; Spotts, John – T.H.E. Journal, 1994
Describes the design and use of SCORE (Sales and Customer Service Occupational Readiness Education), courseware developed by AT&T to provide midliterate adult customer service representatives with computer-assisted instruction. Topics addressed include job simulations; skills in reading, writing, math, problem solving, and critical thinking;…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation
Peer reviewedBlanchard, Jay – Computers in the Schools, 1989
Defines hypermedia and hypertext and discusses possible applications for children's education and adult learning. Topics discussed include learner control; language readiness and beginning reading for children; adult literacy; reading to learn in content areas; writing applications; and hypertext study guides for handicapped learners. (seven…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
Download full textEsch, Edith, Ed. – 1994
The immediate stimulus for this collection of papers was a conference, Self-Access and the Adult Language Learner, organized by the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT) and the Language Centre of the University of Cambridge in December 1992 at Queen's College, Cambridge. Several 1-day conferences on the same theme were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
