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Rebecca Ferguson; Leigh-Anne Perryman; Simon J. Ball – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2024
The popularity of MOOCs and MOOC platforms prompted some universities to develop their first online courses, while others experimented with the format of existing online offerings. Despite the body of research identifying cognitive, metacognitive, and practical benefits of printed materials, there has been a shift towards an approach that…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, MOOCs, Printed Materials, Learning Modalities
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Marek Lukác; Silvia Lukácová – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Context: The paper focuses on an analysis of school-based vocational education and training (VET) of adults in Slovakia against the background of the concept of second-chance education (hereafter SCE). The concept of SCE involves different conditions of education to those that adults faced during their initial education and were unable to meet.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Vocational Education, Reentry Students, Adult Students
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Jisun Jung; Mei Lai; Xiaoshi Li – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
An increasing number of part-time adult learners have enrolled in master's programmes globally for career advancement and personal growth. The educational and working backgrounds of these part-time master's students are diverse. Their motivations for pursuing master's degrees and continued learning are also varied. We explored part-time master's…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Masters Degrees, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Helen Caldwell; Emma Whewell; Tanya Richardson – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
This study highlights the needs and potentialities of an often-overlooked group: Part-Time Doctoral Students who are Full-Time Academics at their institutions (PTSFTAs). Such students are rarely considered in the research literature, yet they face a unique set of tensions as their roles and identities evolve. This study contributes fresh…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Supervision, Well Being, Part Time Students
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Philipo Lonati Sanga; Gennes Hendry Shirima – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
The focus of this paper is to report the findings of a qualitative study whose purpose was to analyse the experiences of adult learners pursuing evening postgraduate degree programmes at the university level in Tanzania. Using ethnographic research combined with multiple case research design, together with in-depth interviews and documentary…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Responsibility, Universities, Foreign Countries
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Anastasia Badder – Journal of Jewish Education, 2024
Much research on part-time Jewish educational programs has focused on curricular content and pedagogy. Yet classrooms involve diverse exchanges about curricular subjects as well as those that appear little related to Jewish studies; both are motivated by assumptions about which things count as Jewish matters of concern and appropriate orientations…
Descriptors: Judaism, Teaching Methods, Religious Education, Ethnography
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Efrem Melián; Julio Meneses – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2024
Despite the increasing number of non-traditional doctoral researchers, this population's experiences remain largely understudied and their voices unheard. Through in-depth interviews with 24 part-time online doctoral candidates, we explored the perceived facilitators and barriers to academic integration and sense of belonging, as well as how…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Doctoral Students, Sense of Community
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Abigail Lewis; Denise Jackson; Dawn Bennett – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2025
While professional identity formation (PIF) is an important facet of employability and becoming a health professional, there has been little research on PIF among speech pathology (SP) students. This single group, cross-sectional study explored perceived PIF among SP students at a large, urban, Australian university selected via stratified…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Occupations Education, Foreign Countries
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Huiying Lyu; An Nguyen; Canh Thien Dang – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2025
Mature adults comprise more than half of the UK higher education student population, indicating significant growth in participation opportunities. However, this expansion has not necessarily resulted in equal educational quality and outcomes for adult learners. This study addresses the research gap regarding the availability and quality of support…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Adult Students, Student Needs, College Students
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Ruoyu Fang; Robert White – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2025
This study explores academic procrastination among postgraduate distance learners, a topic that has received limited attention. Through qualitative interviews with participants, the authors conducted thematic analysis on their experiences. Three overarching themes emerged: perception, reasons, and reflection of academic procrastination among…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Student Attitudes, Time Management, Graduate Students
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Bradley Rentz; Sinton Soalablai; Natasha Saelua; Avalloy McCarthy – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2024
To strengthen teacher preparation in the Republic of Palau, Public Law 10-32 (enacted in 2018) requires all teachers in the country to hold an associate's degree in education or in the subject area they will teach by the end of 2023. This policy change required many current teachers and those interested in the teaching profession to enroll in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment
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Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2024
These appendixes provide the technical details, methods, and results for the accompanying infographic. The importance of the study, including guiding research questions, is addressed in appendix A, while the study's research approach and detailed results are provided in appendix B.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment
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I-Fan Liu; Hui-Chun Hung; Che-Tien Liang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
With the rise of big data, artificial intelligence, and other emerging information technologies, an increasing number of students without computer science (CS) backgrounds have begun to learn programming. Programming is considered a complex task for beginners, and instructors find it difficult to quickly address all the problems that students…
Descriptors: Programming, Student Attitudes, Blended Learning, Video Technology
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Mark Jones, Editor; Debbie Jones, Editor – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2025
This book offers critical discussion of developing inclusive theory, practice, and policy that supports the needs and experiences of adult learners within higher education settings in the UK. The first part of the book shares the research of authors, all who have lived experience of their area of expertise, and the experiences and needs of adult…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Adult Education, Diversity, Adult Students