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Kalpana Gupta – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to understand the ways in which meditation practice can be used as an online pedagogical method based on adult learners' experiences with various forms of meditation practices. To arrive at this purpose, the researcher found it necessary to gather data about frequency of use, preferences, and related transformative…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Adult Learning, Biofeedback
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Tarbutton, Tanya M.; Doyle, Lori B. – Athens Journal of Education, 2023
Higher education institutions must recognize the responsibility to support online adult learners as members of a larger global community and technological advancements have made this a reality. COVID-19 restrictions to in-person learning highlighted the need for online learning platforms that promote the benefits of teacher presence, consider the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Global Approach
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Lucie Weissova; Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans; Darko Pantelic – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
Contemporary higher education institutions are marked by diverse, internationalized classrooms that bring together various linguistic and cultural backgrounds. However, realizing the full potential of this diversity poses challenges, as academics, key players in maximizing the benefits of international classrooms, often lack the necessary…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Adult Learning, Faculty Development
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Shi, Yuewei; Lin, Xi – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
Maslow's hierarchical needs theory has a unique approach to classifying human needs into five different levels. Some researchers agree that Maslow's need theory followed a "low-high" order and that there is a dominance level for five needs in a hierarchical structure. At the same time, some researchers argue that Maslow's needs are…
Descriptors: Self Actualization, Needs, Classification, Adult Learning
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Puspha Sinnayah; Trudy Ambler; Kate Kelly; Loretta Konjarski; Kathy Tangalakis; Andrew Smallridge – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
The literature indicates that collaborative activities can support professional learning (PL) for academics teaching in higher education (HE). Nevertheless, limited approaches for collegial PL exist that can be embedded in the day-to-day work of busy academics. This paper reports on an evidence-based approach to practice that was undertaken to…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Cooperative Learning
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Conway, Patrick Filipe – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2022
This article synthesizes literatures relating to the fields of andragogy and prison education. It is a key moment to reflect on teaching practices inside carceral settings. As Pell Grant availability for incarcerated students is set to expand dramatically, many college and university faculty are soon likely to be entering prisons as instructors…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Andragogy
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Viktor Wang, Editor – IGI Global, 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration in andragogical education offers significant enhancements to the learning experience for adult learners. By utilizing AI-powered platforms, instructors can provide personalized learning paths that adapt to the unique needs, interests, and goals of each individual. These systems can analyze performance data…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Integration
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Bird, Jane; Donelan, Kate – Research in Drama Education, 2020
This paper examines the application and efficacy of performance ethnography designed for adult professional learning. An ethnographic performance related to women in research leadership was constructed and performed in an executive tertiary leadership programme and the responses from the female audience/participants were investigated. The study…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Adult Learning, Performance, Females
Jacob D. Lemon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As graduate and professional programs internationalize to provide students with global competencies and skills, more graduate students are participating in education abroad programs. Graduate students represent a growing portion of the total population participating in education abroad, with short-term, faculty-directed (STFD) programs expanding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Graduate Students, Study Abroad, Graduate Study
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Owusu-Agyeman, Yaw; Fourie-Malherbe, Magda – Cogent Education, 2018
The learning conceptions and priorities of adult learners in higher education institutions (HEIs) are essential to explicating the meaning adults make to teaching and learning processes as well as their knowledge and skills development. Through knowledge formulation, comprehension and reflection of what they learn, adult learners develop a mental…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Employment Potential
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Owusu-Agyeman, Yaw; Fourie-Malherbe, Magda; Frick, Liezel – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
Adult learners have unique educational needs that require attention from Higher Education Institutions, facilitators and industry. While several theories and policies have been developed to address the bourgeoning educational challenges confronting adult learners in Higher Education Institutions, not much has been achieved in the wake of growing…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Higher Education
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Majeski, Robin A.; Stover, Merrily; Valais, Teresa; Ronch, Judah – Adult Learning, 2017
Given the complex challenges organizations face and the importance of emotional intelligence to effective leadership, management education has begun to help adult learners develop emotional intelligence competencies. These include emotional self-control, conflict management, teamwork, cultural awareness, and inspirational leadership, among other…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Online Courses, Higher Education, Adult Learning
Raza, Nadia K. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examines the relationship between community colleges and prisons as similar institutions that absorb and manage displaced workers, economic refugees, and dispossessed adult populations. Based on interviews with adult learners in two community college settings, I discuss how these two seemingly distinctive institutions work…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Correctional Institutions, Adult Students, Adult Learning
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Martin, Akilah R.; Chen, Joseph C. – Environmental Education Research, 2016
While research on K-12 environmental education (EE) has been quite robust, there has been less focus on effective approaches for mature-age adult learners. This qualitative study examined perceptions of barriers to sustainability in American, mature-age adult learners. Results revealed two interacting, superordinate themes: personal relevance and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Environmental Education, Adult Students, Sustainability
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Cook, Jared S.; Card, Karen A. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2018
Current higher education practices do not sufficiently address the needs of international adult learners. With higher education's emphasis on pedagogical assumptions, adult learners are both isolated and oppressed by higher education. This article focuses on the following: assumptions of pedagogy versus andragogy, oppression of adult learners…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Banking, Experiential Learning, Foreign Students
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