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Sally Smith; Khristin Fabian; Ella Taylor-Smith; Matthew Barr; Tessa Berg; Andrew Bratton; Mario Kolberg; Jim Paterson; Mark Zarb – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
In the UK context of an ageing population, degree apprenticeships represent a new opportunity to study for a degree while working. Apprentices are full-time employees granted time to study for a degree with a significant workplace learning component. The aim of this study was to focus on whether degree apprenticeships are working for adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Apprenticeships
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Wong, Adam; Lee, Daisy; Chan, Catherine – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Taking courses by continuing education (CE) providers is one of the main ways for adults to learning digital skills. CE is provided in either face-to-face (F2F) or online distance learning (ODL) mode. While F2F courses are natural and well-understood, ODL is flexible and less expensive. However, ODL lacks the natural teacher-student and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Continuing Education, Digital Literacy
Shearon, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adult Basic Education (ABE) is a critical part of the educational landscape in the United States; its aim is to improve the basic reading, writing, and numeracy skills of the very diverse population of adults in America who lack proficiency in these skills, and more often than not, a high school graduation credential (U.S. Department of Education,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Scores, Student Attitudes, Social Support Groups
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Owusu-Agyeman, Yaw; Fourie-Malherbe, Magda – Studies in Continuing Education, 2019
Adults who enrol in higher education institutions (HEIs) often have contributions that could serve in enhancing the planning and implementation of their programmes. Importantly, while terms such as active learner engagement and knowledge co-creation dominate adult learning discussions, there are unanswered questions pertaining to how adult…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Higher Education, Learner Engagement, Structural Equation Models
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Taylor, Maurice C.; Atas, Sait; Ghani, Shehzad – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2019
This exploratory study sought to understand the meaning of cognitive presence for graduate students in a blended learning course. Four research questions guided the investigation, which employed a qualitative instrumental case study approach as the research design. Several data sources were used including: semi structured interviews with graduate…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Blended Learning, Graduate Students, Case Studies
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Nicolaides, Aliki; Dzubinski, Leanne – Journal of Transformative Education, 2016
Life in the 21st century is increasingly complex, paradoxical, and ambiguous, bringing into question the ways that graduate adult education programs function. In this article, we describe an action research study involving the method of collaborative developmental action inquiry conducted with key stakeholders of a program in adult education at a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Transformative Learning, Action Research
Linkhauer, Lorraine D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative case study focused on the perception of Creative Arts (CA) students on creativity and innovation stimulators and barriers in higher learning situations, and, the observation and comparison of the fluency and flexibility exhibited within the results of the 30-circle exercise to determine the degree of development for creativity and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Art Education, Creativity, Innovation
Price, Joseph W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this multiple case study was to develop an understanding of what older nontraditional undergraduate English majors voiced as the challenges, attributes, and promises concerning their choice of that academic major. Ten participants took part in this study; these were students enrolled during the Spring 2012 semester as English majors…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Undergraduate Students, College English, Majors (Students)
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Dimitris Alimisis; Emmanouil Zoulias – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this research is the development of a problem-based curriculum for robotic surgical training and its evaluation. Design/methodology/approach: First, the aim and objectives of the curriculum are defined and the background learning theories that guide our work are introduced. The methodology for designing the simulator-based…
Descriptors: Robotics, Surgery, Training, Skill Development
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Wilches, Astrid – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
The purpose of this study is to investigate learners' perceptions of the benefits of tasks using voice tools to reinforce their oral skills. Additionally, this study seeks to determine what aspects of task design affected the students' perceptions. Beginner learners aged 18 to 36 with little or no experience in the use of technological tools for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Educational Benefits, Computer Mediated Communication
Trivette, Carol M.; Dunst, Carl J.; Hamby, Deborah W.; O'Herin, Chainey E. – Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute, 2009
The effectiveness of four adult learning methods (accelerated learning, coaching, guided design, and just-in-time training) constituted the focus of this research synthesis. Findings reported in "How People Learn" (Bransford et al., 2000) were used to operationally define six adult learning method characteristics, and to code and analyze…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Coding, Teaching Methods
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Van Zyl, H.; Massyn, L. – American Journal of Business Education, 2008
The Bachelor in Management and Leadership (BML) is a programme specifically designed for working adult learners in the field of management leadership. As part of their assessment, students have to complete a small research project, called the Major Piece of Work (MPW). The aim of this paper is to discuss the Major Piece of Work as a real example…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Administrator Education, Bachelors Degrees
Kegan, Robert; Broderick, Maria; Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Helsing, Deborah; Popp, Nancy; Portnow, Kathryn – 2001
This document contains information about and from a study of the experiences of 41 adults enrolled in adult basic education/English for speakers of other languages (ABE/ESOL) programs that was conducted to determine what their learning meant to them and to identify strategies for developing a new pluralism in ABE/ESOL classrooms and teaching to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2007
For the thirtieth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Communications