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Majeski, Robin A.; Stover, Merrily; Valais, Teresa – Adult Learning, 2018
The community of inquiry (COI) model identifies elements which are fundamental to a successful online learning experience, namely, teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social presence. The model has received empirical support as a useful framework for understanding the online learning experience. A limitation of the model is its…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Inquiry, Electronic Learning, Models
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Rice, Caitlin A.; Tokowicz, Natasha – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This review examines and integrates studies of second language (L2) vocabulary instruction with adult learners in a laboratory setting, using a framework provided by a modified version of the Revised Hierarchical Model (Kroll & Stewart, 1994), the Revised Hierarchical Model-Repetition Elaboration Retrieval. By examining how various training…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Semantics
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Bloomquist, Candace D.; Georges, Leah – Journal of Leadership Education, 2022
Leadership scholar-practitioners seldom need to be sold on the benefits of working together. Rather leadership educators want to know how to teach adult leadership scholar-practitioners how to work together across differences. The aim of this paper is to guide leadership development practitioners on how to nurture leadership that can address the…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Interdisciplinary Approach, Global Approach, Adult Learning
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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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Brooks, Carolyn – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2015
This pilot case study of two teachers and their learner groups from Adult and Community settings, investigates how numeracy teachers, working with adult learners in discrete numeracy classes, motivate and enable learners to build on their informal skills and apply new learning to their own real-life contexts. Teachers used a range of abstract and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Numeracy, Adult Learning, Daily Living Skills
Smith, Debra M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to develop a research-based model for designing and deploying instructional narratives based on principles derived from narrative theory, development theory, communication theory, learning theory and instructional design theory to enable adult learning and retention and the effective transfer of that retained learning…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Instructional Design, Models, Teaching Methods
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Ekmekci, Ozgur – Higher Education Studies, 2013
The purpose of this essay is to critically examine course structure and the role it may play in improving teaching presence in an asynchronous online learning environment. The examination is grounded in experiential learning; adult learning principles; case-based and problem-based learning methods; and peer reviews. The discussion is concluded…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication
ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career, 2014
The Behaviors of Learning and Teaching Continuum (BLT) defines key characteristics of student and adult learning and teaching practice within Linked Learning pathways. It illustrates how these behaviors and actions might be observed both inside and beyond the classroom.
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Outcomes of Education
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Brown, Gavin T. L.; Marshall, Jennifer C. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Successful academic writing requires strong command of the rhetorical moves that orient the reader to the theme and substantive material of an academic essay. Effective control of the introduction leads to better overall writing. The goal of this study was to devise and evaluate a pedagogy for teaching the writing of academic essay introductions.…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Academic Discourse, Teaching Methods, Essays
Meyer, Mindy – ProQuest LLC, 2011
New teachers continue to leave the profession at high rates although retention rates vary from school to school, district to district, and state to state. Many districts have implemented mentoring programs to improve retention of and support for new teachers in their schools. Often these models rely on full-time release mentors, which is…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Mentors, School Holding Power, Adult Learning
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Cornell-d'Echert, Blaise, Jr. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
Most adult education practitioners will understand the special requirements educators should attend to when educating adults. While Malcolm Knowles's adult education principles might not meet the strictest definition of principles, their universal adoption and acceptance by adult educators affords them the same weight as principles. So, as Knowles…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Military Training, Adult Educators, Educational Principles
Spaulding, James T. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Adult learning practices that incorporate experiential learning and playfulness promise greater learner involvement and engagement, produce better results than "teaching-to-the-test" lectures and presentations, and represent a major opportunity to improve adult learning. The author developed such an adult learning activity for an adult Safe…
Descriptors: Models, Safety, Transfer of Training, Experiential Learning
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Cornelius, Sarah; Gordon, Carole; Ackland, Aileen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
This article argues for a flexible model of learning for adults which allows them to make choices and contextualise their learning in a manner appropriate to their own professional practice whilst also developing as a member of a learning community. It presents a design based around online "learning activities" which draws on ideas of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Steier, E. Joseph, III – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The objective of this dissertation was to explore the concept that knowledge and application of theories, principles and methods of adult learning to teaching may be a core management competency needed for companies to improve employee reaction to learning, knowledge transfer and behavior as well as engagement, retention and profitability.…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Learning Theories, Teacher Effectiveness, Labor Turnover
McKee, Candie DeLane – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study used a needs assessment, process analysis, process design, and textbook design to develop a new process and new textbook, based on Cargile-Cook's layered literacies, Quesenbery's five qualities of usability, and Carliner's information design theories, for use in technical writing service learning courses. The needs assessment was based…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Teaching Methods, Needs Assessment, Service Learning
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