Building sustainable futures for adult learners
By: edited by Jennifer K. Holtz, Stephen B. Springer, Carrie J. Boden-McGill
Contributors: Adult Higher Education Alliance; American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
Series: Adult learning in professional, organizational, and community settings
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 661
ISBN-13: 9781623968717; 9781623968724; 9781623968731
Subjects: Adult education; Congresses; Congreses; Administration; Adult education students
Notes: Papers originally presented at the 2013 AHEA/AAACE Conference.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Rebuilding lives: narratives of the educational experiences of displaced workers / Margaret A. Voelkel; title: Adult degree programs : factors impacting student persistence / Mathew J. Bergman, Kevin J. Rose, and M. Brad Shuck; title: Do graduate students who set formal goals really graduate at higher rates? / Robert Collins, Jill Codington, and Dorothy Williams; title: College enrollment choices predicted by social capital, academic encouragement, environment, and student-parent differences / Elyse D?nn Lovell and Dustin Barnes; title: Torn between three worlds : examining the graduate school experience of women balancing doctoral education, motherhood, and work / Aimee Tiu Wu; title: Enhancing meaning in adult higher education through arts based learning / Lisabeth Eames Capozzi; title: Re-visioning general education through the adult baccalaureate learning experience / Diane Dick; title: Online learning and application of active learning strategies : adult learners in online settings / Yu-Chun Kuo; title: Collaborations and partnerships : the foundation of technology enhanced active learning / Marilyn Lockhart and Lindsey Jackson; title: Adopting and implementing adult learner-focused hybrid teaching and learning : one institution's journey / Lori A. Peterson and Daniel M. McGuire; title: Give me a real world example : teaching adults critical comprehension using authentic complex texts / Leah Katherine Saal; title: Sustainability and transitional learning : exploring the influence of adult learners' mental models on adaptive change / Brian S. Hentz; title: Negotiating experience and theory : piloting cornerstone; title: And capstone courses to build a sustainable future for an interdisciplinary graduate degree program / Stephen Springer, Omar Lopez, Matthew Eichler, Tennille Lasker-Scott, and Carrie Boden-McGill; title: Incidental learning and complexity in the workplace / Michael D. Harner; title: Staged self-directed learning model: leaving the nest? : from novice to professional / Julie Hall; title: Blending for sustainability: aligning the needs of adult; title: Learners and the needs of health sciences education / Paige L. McDonald, Howard O. Straker, and Laurie B. Lyons; title: Training medical faculty to use adult learning principles and mentoring in clinical teaching / Kathy Peno, Elaine M. Silva Mangiante, and Rita Kenahan; title: When adult learning practitioners encounter education in the health professions : challenges to theory and practice / Teresa J. Carter and Laura P. Gogia; title: Collaborative leadership for sustained partnerships / Margaret H. Rice; title: Shaping leadership culture : the role of adult education in developing and sustaining the next generation of women leaders / Carmela R. Nanton; title: Advancing innovation in higher education / Anna K. Hultquist; title: Prior learning assessment: trends and issues in U.S. post-secondary education / Henry S. Merrill; title: What's in your credit hour? : quantifying intended learning outcomes in education / Frederick Carl Prasuhn and Scott Frasard; title: A hypothetical model to help faculty members in the use of learning contracts with the students / Monica Fedeli, Ettore Felisatti, and Mario Giampaolo; title: Personal and professional experiences to develop learning in teachers' professional qualification / Ettore Felisatti, Monica Fedeli, and Mario Giampaolo; title: Integrating technology into pedagogical content knowledge in K-12 and university professional development / Kathleen B. Fabrikant, Cindy S. York, and Megan E. Morris; title: Developing a repertoire of practice : online instructor dispositions and personalities / Jeral R. Kirwan and Elizabeth Roumell; title: Creating strong partnerships through community coalitions / Clint Cummings and Karen Franck; title: The development of Appalachian adult learners under globalization : a transformative perspective / Fujuan Tan, Lee Nabb, and Robert Sammons; title: Globalization of curricula through partnerships : building competitive global learner capacity / Amy Rell and Roxanne Gonzales.