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Smith, Felicia Cummings; Teater, Tracy – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic caused many sectors of America to rethink the way they navigate life. However, adult learners in family literacy programs across the country demonstrated exceptional resiliency. The National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) focused on supporting essential literacies (including digital), social-emotional well-being, and…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Adult Learning
O'Leary, Kate Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Personalized learning is gaining popularity among educational leaders due to reexamining teaching and learning the pedagogy by increasing student ownership. However, the implementation of personalized learning is limited, even after professional development opportunities. The problem addressed in this study was the inconsistency in the content and…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Individualized Instruction, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
Amy Danielle Hauver – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Learning is a complex, subjective process. An important perspective on learning is that anyone, regardless of their level of education, can participate in learning about science and contribute to their community. The public increasingly looks towards online resources to find answers to challenges, so it is necessary that people become empowered to…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Models, Educational Principles, Lifelong Learning
Kathryn Ann Tomlinson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research has shown that early adoption of innovations often converges with the need for knowledge. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was understanding what types of instruction small business owners and their employees required to fill a gap in learning necessary skills to launch and maintain social media marketing campaigns. The…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Marketing, Educational Needs
Gina Pagano – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In today's workforce, individuals are staying in their respective professions longer and retiring at ages past 67, resulting in a generationally diverse workforce. Currently, teachers range from 21-80 years of age, working in the same profession and receiving the same professional development. Considering adult learning and the dynamics associated…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Environment, Generational Differences, High School Teachers
Koster, Jennifer L. Herald – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) at all-online universities are faced with the same challenge each year: creating a professional development curriculum that offers experienced and pedagogical support and community-building opportunities for faculty. Ideally, faculty would offer suggestions, contributions, and engagement regarding their…
Descriptors: Resource Centers, Virtual Universities, College Faculty, Faculty Development
Nasrullah Anwar – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
This case study is an example of how a real-world ethnographic study can be adapted for online data collection during the coronavirus pandemic. The aim of the study was to explore the value of learning communities for adult learners in an adult campus at a tertiary college in the northwest of England. However, the study was disrupted by lockdowns…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, COVID-19
Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, W. Craig – European Journal of Education, 2019
The relationship between ageing and skills is of growing policy significance due to population ageing, the changing nature of work and the importance of literacy for social and economic well-being. This article examines the relationship between age and literacy skills in a sample of OECD countries using three internationally comparable surveys. By…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Literacy, Adult Learning
Angela Bate – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
The Labour Party's manifesto aims to reform further and higher education by integrating business, training providers and unions within a governmental effort to ensure a highly trained workforce. Skills England will align training with labour market needs, empower local leaders and enhance support for job seekers. However, the focus on young people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Adult Education
Chen, Tianxu; Koda, Keiko; Wiener, Seth – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Recent second language (L2) reading studies have examined how characteristics of an individual learner and word-specific linguistic properties jointly predict successful L2 word-meaning inference, i.e., a learner's ability to guess the meaning of an unknown word. Semantic transparency is one such word-specific property. Each constituent morpheme…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Second Language Learning, Chinese
Di Rienzo, Paolo – Education Sciences, 2020
The third sector represents a vast and heterogeneous universe that has a key role in society from both the social and civil points of view. It also represents an informal learning context where competence and knowledge are acquired, often in a tacit and indirect way. This research focuses on the key competences of the third sector professionals…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Adult Learning, Competence, Professional Development
Greer, Tomika W. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
Differences between military culture and civilian culture can affect the postmilitary experience for transitioning veterans. Adult educators should acquire and maintain a high level of military cultural competence to effectively serve female veterans as they transition out of the military. For women, the military-to-veteran transition also…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Development, Females, Veterans
Lorraine V. Beach – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This is a qualitative case study that examined four institutions of higher education in New York to assess how well they have done at implementing a quality standard established by the Commission on Accelerated Programs (CAP) in 2011 and 2019 calling for "accelerated adult programs" to incorporate adult learning theory within their…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Practices, Acceleration (Education), Adult Learning
Karen D. Auton – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This case study was an exploration of how instructional coaches self-perceived the role and the responsibilities of the role, the barriers encountered in the role, and the professional development needs of both novice and seasoned instructional coaches. Results revealed that the role of an instructional coach is ill-defined, and the role can often…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Role, Responsibility, Barriers
Livingston, Manuel; Cummings-Clay, Denise – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2023
Community-college professors possess knowledge in distinct disciplines and have varied experiences that they encompass in their college classrooms. Additionally, creating effective environments for teaching and learning require these assets from instructors to fulfill their curriculum needs. Teaching is a multidimensional and complex activity that…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Andragogy, Teaching Methods, Community Colleges