Increasingly paraprofessionals provide inclusive special education services to identified students in general education classrooms within public schools today. Often, however, professional development opportunities for paraprofessionals are limited in scope or are insufficient to match the paraprofessionals' expanded instructional roles. This…

Student feedback is essential to improving the quality of instruction in higher education. This article chronicles the process by which an end-of-course reflection exercise was used to gather additional feedback from students and to determine learning outcomes in online course for adult learners. Students were given guiding questions for the…

Training individuals from diverse backgrounds and in changing environments requires customized training approaches that align with the individual learning styles and ever-evolving organizational needs. Scaffolding is a well-established instructional approach that facilitates learning by incrementally removing training aids as the learner…

Compares a project undertaken in 1732 by William Byrd II to learn about iron mining and smelting to Allen Tough's model of the adult learning project. (CH)

The central development in the Seventies will be the evolving of a comprehensive theory and technology for the education of adults quite distinct from that developed for the education of children. (EB)

In French with no translation provided. (RT)

Promotional materials and activities for Australia's Adult Learners Week, which are shaped by a variety of stakeholders , include media strategies and a website. Activities are evaluated using a market research company and website and telephone hotline statistics. (SK)

Learning to be literate involves understanding unequal power relations that privilege some literacy practices over others. A deficit model associates literacy with skills and motivation, emphasizes standardized literacy accomplishments, and prescribes outcomes. These practices discount the validity of individuals' definitions of and uses for…

The extent to which practitioner inquiry groups function as democratic learning communities depends on how facilitators negotiate power relations. Negotiation issues include social, organizational, and group identity as well as the public identity of practitioner inquiry. (Contains 24 references.) (SK)

Develops a framework listing ways to create learner connections that includes (1) formative processes initiated by the institute or the learner; (2) aspects of connected learning (curriculum, program design, interpersonal and individual elements); and (3) outcomes (learning, growth and development, institutional). (Contains 54 references.) (SK)

Discussion of online learning focuses on a study that was conducted among adult learners to investigate learners' interaction with online communities. Highlights include the concept of community; online learning communities; the importance of meeting face to face; building and maintaining community; and implications for future research. (LRW)

A survey of Georgia physical therapists received responses from 74.7 percent. Results identified the following motivations for continuing education: knowledge, meeting licensure requirements, and advancing in the present job. (SK)

Three popular theories of adult learning have not been fully exploited: (1) Cross' Chain-of-Response Model; (2) Knox's proficiency theory; and (3) McCluskey's Theory of Margin. (SK)

Adult education research and theory largely ignore or neglect the relationship between spiritual values and adult education. Individual spirituality and spiritual tradition influence adult learners' participation, interpretation, motivation, and success. (SK)