2010 marks the 50th anniversary of California's famed Master Plan for Higher Education, arguably the single most influential effort to plan the future of a system of higher education in the annals of American higher education. This essay builds on the analysis offered in a previous CSHE research paper ("From Chaos to Order and Back") by…

This research examined the impact of formative quizzes on e-learning designed to teach volunteers how to tutor struggling readers. Three research questions were addressed: (1) Do embedded quizzes facilitate learning of e-content? (2) Does the announcement of upcoming quizzes affect learning? (3) Does prior knowledge interact with quizzing and…

There is intense interest in computer games. A total of 65 percent of all American households play computer games, and sales of such games increased 22.9 percent last year. The average amount of game playing time was found to be 13.2 hours per week. The popularity and market success of games is evident from both the increased earnings from games,…

This textbook offers a series of reading lessons suitable for adult learners. Suitable reading matter for adult foreign pupils in evening schools has always been difficult. The ordinary first and second readers used in day schools, are intended for children, contain as a rule little material of a kind to interest older persons. Either the ideas…

Approximately 275 Federal programs support some form of lifelong learning. While the majority of the lifelong learning programs are administered by the various agencies within HEW, a significant number of programs are run by such Federal agencies as the Department of Justice, the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, and the Smithsonian…

The author states that public policymakers and the nation's leadership, including business and industry, will need to throw their influence behind any effort made to promote literacy leadership at all levels by broadening the educational enterprise. (CT)

The author attempts to (1) sensitize teachers to the difficulties of teaching adults, (2) review components of the learning process, and (3) give a prospectus for an adult learning theory and supportive instructional theory and strategies that enable classroom teachers to reach every adult learner in the class. (CH)

Explores some issues of adult learning, concentrating on three areas: (1) the conditions under which adults are most likely to learn; (2) strategies that trainers can adopt to enable this to take place; and (3) implications for the training organization sponsor. (Author/JOW)

In this article, it is argued that capitalism and empiricism are dominant and implicit social paradigms that profoundly affect adult education in the United States in often deleterious ways. (CT)

Examines the Adult Independent Learning Project of the 1970s from the perspective of librarian involvement as mediator of information and instrument of the learner. The concept of literacy in the public space is discussed, with libraries defined as agents of learning rather than servants of schooling. (EM)

Examines the variety of ways in which Americans in the 1930s participated in adult education, including the Lyceum Movement, the New York Free Lecture System, and public forums (the Bryson-Studebaker version of the Lyceum). Also discusses the first "Handbook of Adult Education." (CT)

Examines proxemics, the study of people's use of distance and space arrangements, and how these can affect the adult learning environment. (SK)

In the construction of a philosophic foundation for adult education that is based on Sartre, learning is defined as a leap into nothingness and facilitation as inherently dialogical. Support is given to such adult education concepts as self-directed learning, lifelong learning, and learning projects. (SK)

The author suggests that Knowles's concept of andragogy offers a philosophical position rather than a unified theory of adult learning. She examines weaknesses of the theory and discusses it in relation to humanistic psychology and existentialism. (SK)