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Download full textKevin Hinckley – Online Submission, 2024
Use of the term Background knowledge, in conjunction with Reading Comprehension, has become convoluted and vague over the past several decades of research. Showing the abundance of uses of the term in multiple domains and disciplines has relegated it to being an automatic inclusion in key notes and conclusions of research on the topic of improving…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Educational Improvement, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedKara, Mehmet; Erdogdu, Fatih; Kokoç, Mehmet; Cagiltay, Kursat – Open Praxis, 2019
Although online distance education provides adult learners with an opportunity for life-long learning, there are still factors challenging them to engage in educational processes. The purpose of this study is to explore the challenges faced by adult learners in online distance education through the analysis of the relevant literature. The articles…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Adult Learning, Barriers
Direct linkRedlo, Jesse M.; Kiss, Elizabeth A.; Harris, Kirsilyn – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2020
The Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has created a need for a workforce that interacts with the public every day to be educated on how to use personal protective equipment appropriately and practice CDC guided infection control procedures effectively in a very short amount of time. The individuals who make up a large portion of the workforce that…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, Health Behavior
Aksoy, Afra Nur; Aksu, Meral – Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2020
The purpose of this study was to make the teachers in a particular private night high school participate in a School Based Professional Development program for their needs in educational technologies and adult learning theory so that the effectiveness of teachers in Private Night High Schools could improve. This was a case study including…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Andragogy, High Schools, Private Schools
Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth, Ed.; Yudelson, Michael, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
The 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2018) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Templeton Landing in Buffalo, New York. This year's EDM conference was highly competitive, with 145 long and short paper submissions. Of these, 23 were accepted as full papers and 37…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Computer Science Education, Program Proposals
Na, Jin-Cheon; Chia, Shee Wai – Computers & Education, 2008
The Internet and Web technology development have opened up new ways for people to communicate, gain new information and increase their knowledge. One particular area of interest is that of using online resources to empower informal learners to increase their knowledge at their own time and space. One could look at an online resource as a public…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Child Rearing, Instructional Effectiveness, Parenting Skills
Servage, Laura – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose--The purpose of this work is twofold. First, the vagueness of e-learning terminology is explored as a premise that the uncritical use of language reflects uncritical approaches to e-learning. North American practitioner literature is then reviewed to examine the way(s) in which e-learning vocabulary and metaphors reveal the attitudes and…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Employees, Computer Uses in Education
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory
Kuchinke, K. Peter, Ed. – 2000
This two-volume document contains the proceedings of the 2000 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). Volume 1 contains the following materials: conference overview; text of a town forum on social responsibility and human resource development (HRD); papers from symposia 1-24; and papers from innovative sessions 1-4. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals)
