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Attracting Mature Students into Higher Education: The Impact of Approaches to Learning and Social Identity
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Howard, Chris; Davies, Peter – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This paper reports on data collected during an evaluation of two higher education courses designed to attract mature entrants aged between 21 and 60 to undergraduate degree programmes. Employing an evaluation design informed by a critical realist approach, the study utilised a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the outcomes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Mixed Methods Research
Student Success and Perceptions of Course Satisfaction in Face-to-Face, Hybrid, and Online Sections of Introductory Biology Classes at Three, Open Enrollment, Two-Year Colleges in Southern Missouri
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Hill, Joyce Diane – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Introductory biology courses at two-year, open enrollment colleges in America are presented in a variety of different course delivery formats. Traditionally, most students have enrolled in seated or face-to-face (F2F) lectures and laboratories. There is increased demand for courses presented online or in a hybrid format, although some studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Perception, Synchronous Communication, Biology
Students' Expectations of the Learning Process in Virtual Reality and Simulation-Based Learning Environments
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Keskitalo, Tuulikki – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
Expectations for simulations in healthcare education are high; however, little is known about healthcare students' expectations of the learning process in virtual reality (VR) and simulation-based learning environments (SBLEs). This research aims to describe first-year healthcare students' (N=97) expectations regarding teaching, studying, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Expectation
Re-Conceptualizing the Organizing Circumstance of Learning
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Spear Ellinwood, Karen Courtenay – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study explores the web-navigation practices of adult learners in higher education and re-conceptualizes the concept of the organizing circumstance of self-managed learning, originated by Spear and Mocker (1984). The theoretical framework draws on funds of knowledge theory from a cultural historical perspective and elaborates a Vygotskian…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Learning Experience, Internet
The Importance of Examining Teacher and Learner's Attitudes and Understanding Learning Needs in the Twenty First Century
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Jabbarifar, Taghi; Elhambakhsh, ELham – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
An indispensable part of any curriculum design in an educational setting is the analysis of the needs of the learners involved in the context. The needs can be addressed from different perspectives. Among them, the learners' needs in terms of their perceptions toward what constitute learning/teaching and testing processes are of prominent values.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Observation, Instructional Design
Servant-Leader Development in an Adult Accelerated Degree Completion Program: A Mixed-Methods Study
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Anderson, Angela R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Although many private Christian liberal arts programs exist today that seek to foster servant-leader (SL) development within their students, there is a void of both literature and data that details how servant-leadership development occurs and what contexts may be appropriate or necessary for this development. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Students, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Liberal Arts