This paper explores experience that is both misconstrued and under theorized in adult education. Human expressed the public sphere as motivation for social political change. The connections among experience, sphere, democracy are identified. allies exploring role of education John Dewey Jack Mezirow's transformation theory their understanding a basis outlining more critical theory-inspired reco...

We analyze information aggregation in a stopping game with uncertain common payoffs. Players learn from their own private experiences as well as by observing the actions of other players. We give a full characterization of the symmetric mixed strategy equilibrium, and show that information aggregates in randomly occurring exit waves. Observational learning induces the players to stay in the gam...

This study investigates the case-based learning experience of 133 undergraduate veterinarian science students. Using qualitative methodologies from relational Student Learning Research, variation in the quality of the learning experience was identified, ranging from coherent, deep, quality experiences of the cases, to experiences that separated significant aspects, such as the online case histo...

Collaborative Learning (CL), where students work together to develop shared understanding, is effective within the classroom. By co-constructing knowledge, learners benefit from the collective experience of others to supplement their learning. However, the extent to which students engage in collaborative activity outside of formal learning, and the basis of perceptions of the value of CL, is la...

This paper provides insight into the way in which distance learning had changed over the past 30 years from the perspective of the author as a distance learning student. The question is then asked as to whether current practice is reducing flexibility for distance learning students? The paper starts with a discussion of flexible learning and the different factors that need to be considered when...