The idea that popular culture and entertainment media influence us in both conscious and unconscious ways is not new. The use of alternative spaces, such as internet sites, for creating entertainment will continue to influence society and challenge educators. The importance of the internet was reflected in Time magazine's choosing YOU (meaning the…

The principles of relationships, relevance, and rigor (the three R's) provide a framework for structuring conversations and initiatives in instructional practice (Wagner, 2002). Typically, this framework is applied to student learning. In this article, the authors apply the three R's to adult learning and highlight three small schools in order to…

A study was conducted to determine whether wine experts, already trained in the traditional oenology method, would be interested in learning about wine through multimedia and distance learning. Data were gathered from 113 of the 502 members of the American Wine Society who attended a national conference in November 1995. About 58 percent were male…

This study evaluated the effects of DISCOVER for Adult Learners and System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) PLUS on career decidedness, vocational identity, and perceptions of computer use for 116 adults seeking services at a self-help oriented career center. Adults were randomly assigned to either DISCOVER for Adult Learners (DAL),…

Adult students learn effectively only when there evolves, in the course which they attend, a framework of reference to experience of the world outside the meeting room by which they can orient, assimilate and make use of what it is they are learning. (Author)

This collection of four papers (each with a response) given at a 1987 symposium focuses on a renewed consideration of literacy in America and its implications for national, state, and local policy. The papers include "Definitions of Literacy" (Richard L. Venezky); "Literacy for What Purpose?" (Larry Mikulecky); "Measuring…

Fairleigh Dickinson University developed a University Core Curriculum which it initiated in the 1987-1988 academic year (the pilot program was operational in the fall 1986 semester). The University Core is composed of four 3-credit liberal education courses: "Perspectives on the Individual," which deals with works ranging from Plato's "Crito" to…

This document contains an analysis which identifies the transfer of the Shared Process Evaluation System (SHAPES) to the Significant Learning Event Analysis (S(L)EA), a self-evaluation instrument which offers a systematic flexible approach to access learning, and which is intended to be useful to adult education researchers in examining adult…

The AFOSR research plan calls for fundamental studies in human learning and performance that would provide the foundations for general laws of learning applicable to Air Force problems. The report describes gaps in research that should be eliminated by investigations in specific fields. Studies of individual and group differences in aptitude and…

This booklet presents guidelines regarding the selection, training, qualifications, and tasks of industrial instructors. The appendix briefly deals with learning processes including the sensory bases of learning, learning theory, instructional methods, stages of training, and instruction principles. (DM)

This report is concerned with the place of "nontraditional" students within higher education and the enhanced role of "further education." The Commission favors opening up more options for students outside colleges and universities, more opportunities for returnees to higher education and for all adults who wish to participate…

This is the fifth in a series of updatings of this bibliography. Nearly three fourths of the titles have appeared since the original list was prepared seven years ago. The bibliography is organized in 12 sections. Eight of the sections consist principally of books, each of which relates to a course, seminar, or institute of the program of Graduate…

The present study examined the effects of varying meaningfulness of response terms (low, medium, and high) in paired-associate learning of five-or seven-item lists over five trials with both experimenter-paced and self-paced conditions. The subjects were two groups of elderly adults, 61-75 and 76-92. (Author)