Online education is becoming an important component of career and technical education (CTE) in teacher preparation and at the graduate level. In the midst of such growth, and in response to questions about quality compared with traditional learning, there is a consensus that online courses and programs should be designed based on the needs of adult learners. However, much of the literature in o...

Building onto a short introduction into the e-portfolio method this contribution focuses on experiences and challenges for adult education: For that, it describes best practice, current projects and initiatives in European adult and continuing education. Additionally, the results of interviews with experienced adult educators who have already worked with the e-portfolio method will be referred:...

There are two major elements in this article. First, we describe the role and function of beliefs and philosophy in instruction, particularly in adult education. Second, we report the results of a research undertaking to determine the predominant educational philosophies for the field of training and development. On Beliefs and Philosophical Foundations The development of a working philosophy i...

Effective teaching with technology in adult education stems from many factors. Technology is only used to enhance learning. Not only are teachers of adult learners required to study the tools related to the use of technology, but are also required to study the nature of knowledge, the nature of learning, constructivism and various kinds of teaching philosophies. Without thorough knowledge of th...

Since the founding of the field of adult education, the task of explaining how adult learners learn has been a major one on the part of both researchers and practitioners. Adult learning, after all, is the glue that holds together an otherwise widely disparate field, a field that ranges from adult basic education (ABE) to human resource development, and from educational gerontology to continuin...

Life long learning is one of the three basic axes on which Greece bases all of its efforts to upgrade Greek reality in all levels, such as the financial, the social and the cultural in both terms of quantity and quality. To win the bet of adult education in the country, all possible ways of delivering educational and training services should be explored and used. Distance learning has to be use...

PURPOSE Adult bone mass depends on acquisition in childhood and decline in adulthood, and may be influenced by socioeconomic conditions over the entire life course. METHODS We examined associations of bone mineral density (BMD) in adulthood with life course socioeconomic status in 729 participants in the Midlife in the United States Biomarker Project, adjusting for age, menopausal transition ...