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Yoo, Sun Joo; Huang, Wenhao David – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2013
As the number of online degree programs continues to grow among higher education institutions in the United States, engaging online adult learners to online degree programs is getting more difficult than before. Therefore, this study, situated in a land grant university, investigated the motivational factors that contribute to adult learners'…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Learner Engagement, Adult Students
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Kallioinen, Outi – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
In this article the author discusses the importance of defining generic competences in alignment with the European definitions. As a case study the generic competences defined by Laurea University of Applied Sciences are compared with European definitions of generic competences. The purpose is to open up the various perspectives within this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Degrees, National Standards