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Woods, David M. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2020
This paper explores how goal-setting activities in a course were used to promote a growth mindset in students. Research shows many benefits for students with a growth mindset that emphasizes learning and addressing challenges by focusing on effort and process rather than judgments about success or ability. Activities designed to prompt students to…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Assignments, Learning Activities, Skill Development
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Neves, Claudia; Henriques, Susana – Open Praxis, 2020
This article intends to launch discussion and reflection on two main themes: lifelong learning and digital literacy in nowadays societies. In looking for the intersections between these concepts to connote them with a more humanistic and holistic perspective, we explore the potentials of distance learning in the lives of adult learners. The…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Open Universities, Public Colleges
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Buckingham Shum, Simon; Crick, Ruth Deakin – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
Many educational institutions are shifting their teaching and learning towards equipping students with knowledge, skills, and dispositions that prepare them for lifelong learning, in a complex and uncertain world. These have been termed "21st century competencies." Learning analytics (LA) approaches in general offer different kinds of…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Data Analysis, Research Tools, Lifelong Learning
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NORDSCI, 2018
This volume includes two sections of the 2018 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Education and Educational Research; and (2) Language and Linguistics. Education and Educational Research includes 22 papers relating to scientific topics in the full spectrum of education, including history, sociology and economy of education,…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Career Readiness
Cleveland-Innes, Martha; Emes, Claudia – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2005
Using well-known tenets of student development and student success as a central organizing premise, it is suggested that higher education curriculum should include outcomes related to the development of students as competent, lifelong learners. This imperative is driven by demands on higher education to prepare graduates for complex, dynamic, and…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, Higher Education, Student Development, Educational Change
Hayek, John C.; Kuh, George D. – 1998
This study compared college seniors' self-evaluation of skills considered important for lifelong learning from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The study used data from the College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ), a national database begun in 1983 which includes over 200,000 student records from over 600 colleges and universities. An index…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Outcomes Assessment, College Seniors, Higher Education