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Ya-Hui Lee; Yi-Fen Wang; Hsien-Ta Cha – Adult Learning, 2025
Lifelong learning is a key element that helps adults undergo and adapt to different career stages. This study analyzed job service specialists' lifelong learning experience of successfully matching the needs between job seekers and employers. The researchers adopted the qualitative research method and conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Applicants, Employers, Specialists
Jennifer M. Vandiver – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present study investigated the experiences of educators who taught in the virtual world Second Life®. Second Life has shown promise in the field of higher education but identified gaps exist: the identification of a set of best practices, a foundational theory, and educators' experiences using Second Life in higher education. Using a single…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Computer Games, Computer Mediated Communication, Technology Integration
Aaron Christian Wenger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Contemporary education research seeks causal inferences in order to guide policy and practice. Often well-controlled quasi-experimental and experimental designs are used as they are very useful for supporting and contextualizing causal inferences. Nevertheless, individual studies, even high-quality, resource-intensive randomized controlled trials,…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Research, Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods
Oriane Nermond; Corin Egglestone; Lorenzo Manetti; Emily Jones – Learning and Work Institute, 2024
The Adult Participation in Learning Survey provides unique insights into adult learning across the UK. It adopts a deliberately broad definition of learning, reflecting the fact that learning is about much more than formal courses and qualifications. The 2024 survey shows just over one half (52%) of adults have taken part in learning in the last…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Surveys, Adult Learning
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Fiorella, Logan – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
How do learners make sense of what they are learning? In this article, I present a new framework of sense-making based on research investigating the benefits and boundaries of generative learning activities (GLAs). The generative sense-making framework distinguishes among three primary sense-making modes--explaining, visualizing, and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Learning Activities
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Nathan Ruhl – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Helping students to understand complex processes is one of the core challenges in teaching biology courses. Concept mapping is a flexible pedagogical method that enables students to learn the complexities of a given subject while at the same time being versatile enough that instructors can easily pivot between instructional modalities and/or…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts, Science Education
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M. El-Sayed; J. El-Sayed; K. Burke; D. Apple – European Journal of Education, 2025
In any educational setting, stigmatisation and implicit biases can stifle growth and reduce the quality of the learning experience of students from low socio-economic status by creating invisible barriers to opportunity and achievement. Furthermore, due to the lack of monitoring and mentoring, these invisible barriers become harder to detect and…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Negative Attitudes, Educational Environment, Attitude Change
Lori M. Herzog – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Organizations are dynamic, and employees must pursue continuing education to remain current on the most recent innovations, technological advances, and competencies in their respective career fields. However, employees often experience obstacles in completing continuing education, resulting in a lack of course material acquisition and, ultimately,…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Modules, Electronic Learning, Andragogy
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Amelie D. Smucker; Sarah M. Nuss – William & Mary Educational Review, 2023
As K-12 educators work toward targeted, small group instruction together with college and career readiness skills, many implement collaborative learning experiences within their classrooms. Collaborative learning can help students develop deeper understandings of content while building critical life-long skills, and using a design for learning…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Small Group Instruction
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Alice Srugies; Vedran Maslic; Benjamin Grumley – Communication Teacher, 2024
Courses Leadership, Strategic Communication, and courses within communication that include a complex group assignment. Objectives The Zombie Apocalypse (ZA) learning activity is part of a second-year course in an international master's program. The course introduces students to key concepts in strategic communication and leadership and encourages…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Barriers
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Mingjie Zou; Binhai Ren – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2024
Flow, a subjective state of optimal engagement and immersion, is characterized by a balance of perceived challenges and skills, interest, attention, and a sense of control (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). Investigating flow in language learning can provide valuable insights into effective learning processes and contexts (Egbert, 2003). Self-regulated…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Meidi Sirk – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Context: The importance of both self-regulated and self-directed learners has been emphasised in lifelong learning. However, in theory, self-regulated learning (SRL) serves as a basis for becoming a self-directed learner. Therefore, SRL (which includes certain skills) needs to be developed in vocational education and training alongside specialist…
Descriptors: Self Management, Career and Technical Education, Student Attitudes, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Samantha Leihsing; Ann Marie Ryan – Theory Into Practice, 2025
How can teachers engage students in participatory civic education in a state like Texas where education policy is interfering with the Rights of the Learner by refusing to allow educators to support students in becoming active participants in vital democratic processes? Texas Senate Bill 3, passed in 2021, prohibits teachers from directly…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Citizen Participation, Civics, Learner Engagement
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Maculeta E. Omiles; Eufrecina Jean D. Ramirez – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2025
This study proposed a framework for Virtual Peer Learning by testing Peer Learning Model to engineering students at a university in Manila during the second semester of school year 2021-2022. Guided Peer Discussions method was applied using Virtual Think-Pair-Share and Virtual Gallery Walk as teaching strategies. Convergent-parallel mixed method…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Universities, College Students, Educational Strategies
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Uriel D. Menalled; Natasha Djuric; Richard G. Smith; Dean G. Baas; Andrea Basche; Erin R. Haramoto; Dara Park; Karen A. Renner; Katherine L. Tully; Sam E. Wortman; Matthew R. Ryan – Natural Sciences Education, 2024
Cover crop mixtures are popular among farmers because they can provide a broader range of ecosystem services than monocultures. However, designing effective cover crop mixtures is difficult because differences in competitiveness among species can cause uneven growth within mixtures, reducing benefits from the suppressed species. The Cover Crop…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Barriers, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities
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