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Improving User Satisfaction via a Case-Enhanced E-Learning Environment
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Kim, Hye Jeong; Pederson, Susan; Baldwin, Moira – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine students' experiences with a case-enhanced e-learning environment in a higher-education institute. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 67 graduate students volunteered to take part in this experiment. The participants were assigned to treatment groups using tutorial with case-based learning (CBL)…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, User Satisfaction (Information), Self Efficacy
Use of Tutorial Mode for Inner-City Graduate Education
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Knowles, Lyle – College Student Journal, 1976
This study describes a tutorial mode, inner-city graduate program designed for mature, full-time employed adults. As an aid in program development and quality control, a formal evaluation of the educational experience from program graduates is presented and explored. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Support for Returning Students
And Others; Buckey, Amy – Adult Leadership, 1976
Describes a program at Duke University on continuing education for women students returning to the university classroom. (ABM)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Older College Students as Tutors for Adult Learners in an Urban Literacy Program.
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Ntiri, Daphne W. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1999
Describes a university literacy tutorial program in which older adult college students received tutor training and then carried out one-to-one reading tutorials with adult male learners who were rehabilitating addicts. Offers two case studies, and shows that the program had a significant impact on tutors' commitment to community volunteerism and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Talking and Writing across the Curriculum: A Tutorial Model for Adult ESL Students in Content Courses.
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Hirsch, Linda – 1988
Focusing on English as a second language (ESL) students' cognitive difficulties in content courses, a study evaluated the Retention Exemplary Model Project for 1986-87 of Hostos Community College of the City University of New York. The project's goal was to help advanced and post-ESL students acquire the language and cognitive skills required to…
Descriptors: Adult Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Proficiency
Peer Tutors Make Good Teachers: A Successful Writing Program.
Rizzolo, Patricia – Improving College and University Teaching, 1982
A university English department's writing center uses peer tutors trained in questioning, explanation, and constructive criticism techniques. Among the issues raised are tutoring adult students and writing across the curriculum. The program has been an effective method of encouraging good writing. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Basic Skills, College Faculty, College Instruction
Beyond Student Financial Aid. Issues and Options for Strengthening Support Service Programs under Title IV of the Higher Education Act.
Franklin, Paul – 1980
Current practices and future directions are examined for the federal student support service programs known as TRIO (Talent Search, Upward Bound, Special Services for Disadvantaged Students, and Educational Opportunity Centers) and the Educational Information Centers program. The TRIO programs identify low income and educationally disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Ancillary School Services, College Bound Students