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Showing 1 to 20 of 290 for “"Adult Learners"”.
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Degree Attainment Among Adult Learners
… discover knowledge about degree attainment among adult learners. This qualitative inquiry is about what 15 bachelor's degree recipients over the age of 25 felt contributed to their efforts to attain the bachelor's degree.</p><p>This study contains professional research and expert material on …
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Perceived Advising Needs Of Adult Learners: A Qualitative Analysis Of Advising Experiences Among Online, Classroom, & Cohort Adult Learners
… of the perceived advising experiences among nine adult learners. Participants were students pursuing their Master's degrees in a department of education at one public university in the upper Midwest. This research explored and described the advising experiences among, and within, three learning …
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Factors influencing adult learners’ satisfaction and retention
… responsibilities, and satisfaction influence adult learners’ retention in higher education? 2) Does satisfaction of academic student support services influence adult learners’ retention in higher education? 3) Do financial issues, and satisfaction influence adult learners’ retention in higher …
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Adult Learners' Motivation in Self-Directed e-Learning
… empirical knowledge on how to motivate online learners, particularly in self-directed e-learning settings (SDEL). Research questions addressed in this study included: 1) what motivates or inhibits adult learning in SDEL? 2) does adult learner motivation change as he or she goes through SDEL? 3) …
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Using multimedia microworlds to motivate and engage adult learners
… to encompass in order to motivate and engage adult learners so that they will not only want to use it, but use it extensively. Eight attributes of motivation and engagement were identified from the literature, these being: immersion; reflection; flow; collaboration; learner control; curiosity; …
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Times are changing: Voices of adult learners' shared experiences
… within a Bachelor's degree completion cohort of adult learners. This study focused on adult learners who are matriculating into a postsecondary institution. The central question of this study was: What are the meaning, structure, and essence of the lived and shared experiences within a Bachelor's …
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The Factors Affecting Undergraduate Retention Among Minority Adult Learners
… study examined the lived experiences of minority adult learners who have experienced academic difficulty while pursuing their college degree. Participants were asked to reflect on their past educational experiences, the obstacles they faced, their motivation to persist, and any recommendations …
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Benefits and Losses: Non-Traditional Adult Learners Returning To Education
… the experience of seven non-traditional adults returning to education. All had won individual or group ‘adult student of the year’ awards. The main research question concerned the benefits and losses they experienced from returning to learning. Sub-questions investigated the benefits they …
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Supplementing ESL Classroom Activities With Social Media For Young Adult Learners
<p>The classroom material currently utilized in English as a second language (ESL) classrooms is often disconnected from the real world. Publishers of ESL instructional materials often attempt to bridge this gap by including topics on popular news, films, songs, and famous persons at the time of …
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A Model For Designing Instructional Narratives For Adult Learners: Connecting The Dots
… theory and instructional design theory to enable adult learning and retention and the effective transfer of that retained learning to practice (performance contexts). Findings from these five areas were used to identify elements to inform the development of a model for the design and deployment of …
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Improving Professional Skills for Trainers Working with Unemployed Adult Learners in Austria
… in Austria are employees who teach unemployed learners. Usually, they have advanced qualifications in other disciplines but not related to adult education. The Austrian labour policy focuses on retraining unemployed people to enter the labour market, a key concern that is given high priority. …
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The art of self-reflection : adult learners' encounters with portfolio-based assessment
… This thesis presents a case study that explored adult learners' experiences with self-reflection in portfolio assessment. The study explored the substance of adult learners' self-reflections, the reflective strategies they employed and the challenges they faced in constructing their assessment …
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Transformative Distance Learning: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Perspective Change in Adult Learners.
… Discourse Analysis of Perspective Change in Adult Learners.
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Instructional Design Strategies Utilizing Interactive Program Materials For Adult Learners: A Content Analysis
… selected for review were all designed for adult learners in or training for professional roles. Interactive programs included in this study are compact disk-interactive (CD-i) with full motion video and CD-i without full motion video (one program with a study guide, one without); and a …
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Bridging the gap between asynchronous and traditional learning environments: Technology for adult learners
… This interest ranges from nontraditional learners to businesses using distance education to meet the needs of employees working in multiple geographic sites. A review of the literature suggests that interaction is an important factor in learning and that improving interaction improves …
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Adult learners' perceptions of MOOC motivation, success, and completion: a virtual ethnographic study
… have shown that MOOC participants tend to be adult learners who already possess bachelor's or master's degrees. Additionally, MOOC completion rates have been reported to be significantly low with less than 15% of enrolled students actually completing them. This has led to questions about who …
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Adult learners in teacher education : developing a sense of self as a teacher
… was to gain an understanding of how returning adult learners, who were enrolled in a teacher preparation program within a career college, understood and made sense of their experiences in the program. This qualitative study centered on the experiences and stories of six adult learners who were …
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Nowhere to Hide: A study of adult learners on a basic ICT course
When key theorists in adult education are reviewed, there is not a strong focus on ICT, or on its transformative power. Most of the adult learning theory is dated B.C, a phrase taken from Bosley (2011:30), meaning before computers. I believe that adults, and the whole world in general is being …
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Women's experiences of social support as adult learners in an Australian community college
The final part of the analysis depicts and critically examines how the various features of social support were molded, shaped, and experienced differently by the women in their daily lives.
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Beliefs about developmentally appropriate practice of adult learners enrolled in child development associate courses
The purpose of this study was to determine if CDA preparation courses affected beliefs about developmentally appropriate practice. Pre and post online TBS surveys were completed by 299 CDA candidates from campuses across the state enrolled in the three courses, each with the same syllabus and …
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