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Download full textLi, Jia; Kay, Robin; Markovich, Louise – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2018
Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) programs in many Ontario colleges offer adult learners who have low literacy and basic skills with opportunities to improve their employment skills as well as results on prerequisite courses for entrance into post-secondary education. LBS students encounter many challenges and require extra interpersonal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Adult Students, Adult Literacy
Molek, Carol – 1992
Operation Soft Boot was a program designed to develop a computer literacy curriculum for use with adult basic education (ABE) students at their educational level. Computer literacy instruction included a review of the component parts of a personal computer system and their operation and a review of basic keyboarding skills. Instruction also…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Computer Literacy
Peer reviewedStrachan, Neville – Education in Rural Australia, 1999
A study of the Wimmera (Victoria, Australia) Adult Literacy and Basic Education Group (WALBEG) surveyed 30 participants to identify reasons people undertook courses, assess the impact of WALBEG programs on the individual and on the community, and investigate possible use of new learning technologies in future delivery of adult programs. (CDS)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Computer Literacy
PDF pending restorationMillar, Diane – 1996
The pros and cons of integrated learning systems (ILS) and stand-alone software for adult literacy instruction were examined in a comparative analysis that focused on their use in adult literacy programs in Canada. The comparison focused on the following variables: achievement gains in reading; changes in students' attitudes toward computers;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Artiss, Phyllis; Fitzpatrick, Laura; Hammett, Roberta F.; Kong, Xiaoqian; Noftle, Elizabeth A. – 2001
This series of five short papers describes an interdisciplinary, community action research project in Newfoundland that sought to enhance and extend the traditional and technological literacy of adults. The papers were part of an action research project conducted by the directors and tutors which made computers available in community resource…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Programs
Dinsdale, Julia – 2001
Thirteen focus groups including approximately 70 people were conducted at University College Worcester and the Worcestershire Lifelong Learning Partnership in England to determine the participants' attitudes toward the educational programs provided and the best ways to reach them and encourage them to engage in learning. The majority of those in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Classroom Techniques
Wood, George S., Jr., Ed.; Wood, Danny, Ed. – 1986
The following papers are included: "Schoolhouse in the Factory: The Phenomenology of Literacy" (Berlin); "The Self-Directed Learning Projects of Employed, Married Mothers" (Boyce); "The Forever Plan: Adult Men Who Continue in Postsecondary Education Compared with Those Who Drop Out" (Brown); "Burnout and Associated Factors among…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
