Points out ways in which recordkeeping and methods of counting participants in adult education can be misleading and disempowering. Highlights lack of agreement over definitions of terms, ways in which information is used to allocate funding, and privacy and confidentiality issues. (SK)

A compulsory continuing education program for human services providers began with establishment of learning objectives and measurement of their achievement by pretests/posttests. The data were used by providers to improve courses and by learners to plan future training needs. (SK)

Describes the Linking Individuals to New Careers (LINC) program at Great Plains Technology Center, part of a state network that moves welfare recipients out of poverty through career and technical education. Discusses LINC workshops on job preparation. (JOW)

Interviews and observations of four adult literacy students elicited their experiences with computers and effects of computer use on learning. They found computer-assisted learning challenging and motivating; it enabled them to control their learning experience. However, they may not have access outside the classroom that would enable future…

Adult learners have limited power, privilege, and advocacy in higher education settings. Adult educators should resist hegemonic policies and develop practices grounded in democratic principles. (Contains 35 references.) (SK)

A study of 15 graduate students in distance education applied a transition model charting changes in their coping responses throughout the program and assessed their perceptions of institutional support. Coping moved slowly from stress management to problem solving. Ability to cope was related to perceptions that the institution acknowledged their…

The goal of a successful future may be the same for deaf and hard-of-hearing students as it is for hearing students, but the path they travel to reach that goal has some additional obstacles. In this article, Marles Bradley, an educator with years of experience offers advice and guidance to others who find themselves working with deaf or…

Four marketing strategies are critical to the success of adult degree programs: integrating marketing, knowing your students (research), shaping programs and services for adults, and staying the course (retention).

Details how a high technology "pod" is being used to bring online learning into small and medium size firms in the UK's East Midlands for employees to use when and where it suits them. Describes how the so-called "Learning Works" project has been made possible through the partnership and support of organizations ranging from…

Based on 10 weekly telephone interviews with first-year college students (N=202; 63% women; M=18.8 years, SD=0.4), within- and between-person associations of positive and negative affect with alcohol use were examined. Multi-level models confirmed hypothesized within-person associations between weekly positive affect and alcohol use: Higher…

This article focuses on the idea of the educable adult subject in Sweden and the ways this idea has re-emerged in different practices during the twentieth century. It's a policy analysis where official documents from the twentieth century and early twenty-first century concerned with adult education in Sweden are analysed based on the Foucauldian…

Open online courses (OOC) with a massive number of students have represented an important development for online education in the past years. A course on artificial intelligence, CS221, at the University of Stanford was offered in the fall of 2011 free and online which attracted 160,000 registered students. It was one of three offered as an…

This investigation was undertaken to investigate the threshold levels of literacy and language proficiency necessary for adult learners to use the Internet for independent learning. The report is triangulated around learning from large-scale surveys, learning from the literature, and learning from the field. Reported findings include: (1)…

This study investigated the factor structure of motivational constructs as expressed by older adult learners and examined how these constructs correlated with selected socio-demographic characteristics at the National Open University of Taiwan (NOUT). Results were based on the responses of 371 elders to the 32-item Reasons for Participation Scale…

This article is a report on research conducted to support the development of a multilingual literacy learning software programme for adult learners in rural Limpopo Province, South Africa. The topic of inquiry for the research was literacy learning in a multilingual environment, with special attention paid to attitudinal and metacognitive aspects.…