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Smith, Billy G. – 1985
Developed for those actively involved with planning the future of two-year postsecondary educational institutions, this publication synthesizes information from the literature with the knowledge and practice in the field regarding the impact of the new adult majority. Chapter I summarizes the issues. Chapter II provides an overview of some of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Change, Educational Change
Grabowski, Stanley M., Ed. – 1970
These eight conference papers discuss adult learning, instructional theory, and related issues in research and practice. Focusing on processes of educational change, the first paper considers how experienced teachers, educational theorists, and researchers possessing empirically tested knowledge can cooperate in program planning. The next paper…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults
Imel, Susan – 2003
The increase in the number of youth under age 18 enrolling in federally funded adult basic and literacy education programs is a trend that is putting increasing pressures on programs designed to serve an adult population. Documenting the extent of the trend is difficult due to the way in which federal statistics on age of program participants have…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Basic Skills, Continuation Students
Barrineau, Irene T., Ed. – Association for Continuing Higher Education, 2003
This document presents the proceedings of the 2003 annual meeting of the Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE). These proceedings record the 65th Annual Meeting of ACHE held in Charlottesville, Virginia. President Allen Varner's theme for this annual meeting was, "Continuing Education in the Era of Quantum Change." The theme…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Adults, Older Adults, Higher Education