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E-Learning in postsecondary education.

Over the past decade postsecondary education has been moving increasingly from the classroom to online. During the fall 2010 term 31 percent of U.S. college students took at least one online course. The primary reasons for the growth of e-learning in the nation's colleges and universities include the desire of those institutions to generate new revenue streams, improve access, and offer student...

Postsecondary Education & Autism: Developing an Online Community

This paper will discuss a research project to develop an online community that supports the transition from secondary to postsecondary education for autistic students. It first will highlight the impact of inadequate existing support resources for postsecondary education and autism. The paper will then share how semistructured interviews with five key stakeholder groups will inform the developm...

Experiences of Veterans Transitioning to Postsecondary Education.

An increasing number of U.S. military veterans are entering postsecondary education with problems attributed to deployed military service. The primary objective of this research was to describe the lived experiences of student veterans transitioning from active military service to postsecondary education. Phenomenological interviews were performed with 13 student veterans who had transitioned f...

Postsecondary education for students with learning disabilities.

Increasingly, students with learning disabilities are attending community colleges and traditional 4-year colleges and universities. This article presents the results of a review of the literature on services available or recommended for students with learning disabilities. The results suggest that postsecondary institutions have begun to provide a wide array of services to these students. Ther...