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Doris Testa; Nina Van Dyke – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Responding to student demand for flexibility in the delivery of classes as well as the potential barriers and enabling factors supporting student success, universities have introduced distinctive educational models, including replacing the standard 12-week, sequential delivery of units of study with 4- or 8-week blocks of one or two units at a…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Success, Foreign Countries, Flexible Scheduling
Matthias Fischer; Kerri Tobin – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Because housing instability can make it difficult for students to attend school, students experiencing homelessness (SEH) may become chronically absent. For this reason, SEH have lower graduation rates than their housed counterpants. Germany's second-chance schools give students an opportunity to catch up on their learning so they can take final…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Foreign Countries, Attendance, Barriers
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Nurlan Apakhayev; Indira Mussabekova; Dina Bugybay; Kaldarbek Kuandykov; Kuanysh Koishybaiuly – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2025
This study addresses the pressing relevance of implementing distance learning technology in the Republic of Kazakhstan across various educational levels, guided by the framework of legal regulation. The study aims to investigate the benefits of using diverse distance learning technologies in modern education, improving access, motivation, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods
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Mechthild Richter; Julian Nishnik; Alina Borrmann; Marek Grummt; Christian Lindmeier – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2025
Flexi-schooling, an approach involving at least some instruction both at home and at school, has potential to adapt education to meet the needs of autistic students while also providing in-person school benefits. This systematic international literature review of flexi-schooling for autistic students aims to understand the advantages and…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Special Education, Educational Benefits
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Conor Barker; Grace Madden; Bonnie Petersen – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2023
Returning to education to complete Grade 12 or improve high school grades after a period away can be an overwhelming and or anxiety inducing event for many students. Upon their return to education, many factors contribute to student persistence relating to completion in Adult Basic Education (ABE). It is essential to understand these factors to…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Students, Rural Areas, Reentry Students
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Pat Conway; Cynthia Lindquist; Sarah Olimb; Michael Parker; Karen Saari; Brent Voels – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
Individuals who are American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) are less likely to enroll in and complete post-high school educational programs and to enter STEM careers than White students. Completion of math courses is a common barrier to academic persistence for many students, including students who are AI/AN. This qualitative study interviewed…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, Postsecondary Education
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Tufford, Lea; Thieu, Vivian; Zhao, Rose; Jenney, Angelique – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2024
This study sought to respond to the increased number of mature students in social work education and the understudied topic of their experiences. The research deployed semi- structured interviews and thematic analysis to explore the benefits, challenges, and needs of mature students (N = 19) over the age of 30 in a Canadian Bachelor of Social Work…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Flexible Scheduling, Guidelines
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Mufic, Johanna; Fejes, Andreas – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
This article focuses on how 'problems' regarding quality in adult education are constituted as particular sorts of 'problems'. The analysis takes its point of departure in a poststructural analytic strategy called 'What's the problem represented to be?'. The material analysed consists of various policy documents concerning contemporary Swedish…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Barriers
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Rachael Blasiman; Sheren Elsayed-Farag; Kristine Harrington – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2024
Hyflex describes a course format that combines both online and in-person elements, allowing students the flexibility to attend class in person, participate remotely in real-time (synchronously), or complete all coursework at their own pace (asynchronously). This study was conducted to explore student and instructor experiences with Hyflex…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes
Darnell, Barry – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2022
There are currently more than 62 million American adults whose highest educational attainment is a high school diploma or its equivalent (U.S. Census Current Population Survey, 2021). Many of these adults have considered postsecondary education, and some even applied for a program. Yet, for various reasons, these adults never began a program of…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Postsecondary Education, Adults, Educational Attitudes
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Flores, Sylvia L.; Flores, Luis A.; Harris, Crystal – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
The Pandemic has affected the success rates among students in Higher Education. In general, Higher Education success rates are typically lower among minority groups. Considering the Pandemic effects in Hispanic Serving Institutions, this research study will focus on understanding the impact of the pandemic on currently enrolled undergraduate…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Academic Achievement, Minority Serving Institutions
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Thapaliya, Mukti – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2023
This descriptive qualitative study explores lecturers' perspectives on Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) in New Zealand Tertiary Education Institutions (TEIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews with the five purposively selected lecturers from four TEIs, this article investigates the challenges and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Pandemics, COVID-19
George W. Bush Institute, 2021
Policy barriers at the national and state levels are preventing many student veterans from achieving their academic and professional potential. Layers of rigid rules determine when, where, and how post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients -- most student veterans -- can utilize their service-connected education benefits. Policymakers should work to knock down…
Descriptors: Veterans, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Health
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Peltoperä, Kaisu; Turja, Leena; Vehkakoski, Tanja; Poikonen, Pirjo-Liisa; Laakso, Marja-Leena – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
This article explores accounts given by Finnish educators (n = 31) on the topic of flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (i.e. childcare provided during non-standard as well as standard hours). Previous research has shown this to be a sensitive topic because of the contradiction between what is deemed in the interests of children…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Attitudes, Phenomenology
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Janet Mannheimer Zydney; Casey Hord – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2023
In this design case, we describe our first attempt to create a virtual mathematics tutoring program for students with learning disabilities. We describe in detail how the design was motivated by the pandemic which forced schools into remote learning, how a university and school collaborated on the design, the rationale for our design decisions,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
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