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Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2018
This is a new report that combines the previous Annual Accountability Report and University Work Plans into one new document that is more closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This revised document will enhance the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by enabling comparisons between past…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Bachelors Degrees, Masters Degrees, Doctoral Degrees
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2018
This is a new report that combines the previous Annual Accountability Report and University Work Plans into one new document that is more closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This revised document will enhance the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by enabling comparisons between past…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Bachelors Degrees, Masters Degrees, Doctoral Degrees
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2018
This is a new report that combines the previous Annual Accountability Report and University Work Plans into one new document that is more closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This revised document will enhance the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by enabling comparisons between past…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Bachelors Degrees, Masters Degrees, Doctoral Degrees
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2018
This is a new report that combines the previous Annual Accountability Report and University Work Plans into one new document that is more closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This revised document will enhance the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by enabling comparisons between past…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Bachelors Degrees, Masters Degrees, Doctoral Degrees
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2018
This is a new report that combines the previous Annual Accountability Report and University Work Plans into one new document that is more closely aligned with the Board of Governors' 2025 System Strategic Plan. This revised document will enhance the System's commitment to accountability and strategic planning by enabling comparisons between past…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Bachelors Degrees, Masters Degrees, Doctoral Degrees
Barrera, Juan Carlos – American Journal of Business Education, 2013
Industrialized nations have invested a great deal of public and private resources to facilitate access to information technologies (ITs) and to adjust their cultures and societies to them. These efforts are commonly associated with the idea of expanding computer literacy from higher education institutions to business organizations. Computers have…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Undergraduate Students, Adult Students, Computer Literacy
Watson, Sharon – Distance Education, 2013
Despite much discussion about the various modes of interaction that are possible within distance education, little attention has been paid to the interactions that occur between distance learners and other people in their life contexts about the academic content of their studies. This paper presents some preliminary findings from a study exploring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Graduate Students, Interpersonal Relationship
Pegg, Ann; Di Paolo, Terry – Studies in Continuing Education, 2013
This paper seeks to advance our understanding of the credit transfer phenomenon in the UK, specifically how students draw on a credit as a form of institutional cultural capital. Drawing on interviews with 26 part-time mature learners, this paper examines the progressive and retrospective orientations to study that surfaced in students' accounts…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Adult Students
Miller, Mark Alan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The study tested the 2X2 model of the Achievement Goal Orientation (AGO) theory in a military technical training environment while using the Air Force Officers Qualifying Test's academic aptitude score to control for the differences in the students' academic aptitude. The study method was quantitative and the design was correlational.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Goal Orientation, Regression (Statistics)
Bridwell, Sandra D. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2013
Using Kegan's constructive-developmental theory, this study examines transformative learning among six low-income and homeless women of Color pursuing their GED in a shelter-based literacy program. Narrative analysis of two developmental interview instruments indicated that some participants' epistemological perspectives and knowledge construction…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Theories, Economically Disadvantaged, Homeless People
Furman, Nate; Sibthorp, Jim – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
Experiential learning techniques can be helpful in fostering learning transfer. Techniques such as project-based learning, reflective learning, and cooperative learning provide authentic platforms for developing rich learning experiences. In contrast to more didactic forms of instruction, experiential learning techniques foster a depth of learning…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Adult Education, Adult Students, Experiential Learning
Muhlisin; Salikin, Hairus – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The study aimed, firstly, to assess a group of Indonesian adult EFL students' mastery of tenses and aspects as part of their mastery of English grammar and, secondly, to identify if their experience of going through the instructional processes, their perceptions of and habits in studying English grammar shaped their mastery of tenses and aspects.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Adult Students, English (Second Language)
Chen, Marsha Black – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2015
This paper begins to address the question--can institutions of higher learning assume homogeneity? Conversations had with returning college students, concluded that an emerging group has increased dramatically in numbers at the college level. This new student profile includes those who: are noticeably older, study part-time, work full-time, are…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Reentry Students, College Students, Qualitative Research
Pott, Terilyn – Qualitative Research in Education, 2015
This exploratory study was undertaken to learn more about how mature students perceive the career counselling process in a post-secondary institution. Through the use of critical incident technique this study examined how three mature students interpret their relationship between themselves and their counsellors. Significant factors identified as…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Undergraduate Students, Maturity (Individuals), Career Exploration
Faculty Perspectives and Needs in Supporting Adult English Learners: Linking Measurement to Practice
Shore, Jane; Lentini, Jennifer; Molloy, Hillary; Steinberg, Jonathan; Holtzman, Steven – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2015
Results from a survey of 227 adult English learner (EL) faculty in community and technical colleges in the United States reveal a clear desire to better serve adult ELs, but a lack of resources specifically designed to do so. Faculty want and need more resources to support the teaching and learning process, in the form of thoughtful assessments,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning

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