Building sustainable futures for adult learners / edited by Jennifer K. Holtz, Stephen B. Springer, Carrie J. Boden-McGill.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoCharlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2015.
Descriptionxxi, 661 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

Other author/creatorHoltz, Jennifer K.
Other author/creatorSpringer, Stephen B.
Other author/creatorAdult Higher Education Alliance.
Other author/creatorAmerican Association for Adult and Continuing Education.
SeriesAdult learning in professional, organizational, and community settings
Contents Rebuilding lives: narratives of the educational experiences of displaced workers / Margaret A. Voelkel -- Adult degree programs : factors impacting student persistence / Mathew J. Bergman, Kevin J. Rose, and M. Brad Shuck -- Do graduate students who set formal goals really graduate at higher rates? / Robert Collins, Jill Codington, and Dorothy Williams -- College enrollment choices predicted by social capital, academic encouragement, environment, and student-parent differences / Elyse D?nn Lovell and Dustin Barnes -- Torn between three worlds : examining the graduate school experience of women balancing doctoral education, motherhood, and work / Aimee Tiu Wu -- Enhancing meaning in adult higher education through arts based learning / Lisabeth Eames Capozzi -- Re-visioning general education through the adult baccalaureate learning experience / Diane Dick -- Online learning and application of active learning strategies : adult learners in online settings / Yu-Chun Kuo -- Collaborations and partnerships : the foundation of technology enhanced active learning / Marilyn Lockhart and Lindsey Jackson -- Adopting and implementing adult learner-focused hybrid teaching and learning : one institution's journey / Lori A. Peterson and Daniel M. McGuire -- Give me a real world example : teaching adults critical comprehension using authentic complex texts / Leah Katherine Saal -- Sustainability and transitional learning : exploring the influence of adult learners' mental models on adaptive change / Brian S. Hentz -- Negotiating experience and theory : piloting cornerstone -- 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 -- Incidental learning and complexity in the workplace / Michael D. Harner -- Staged self-directed learning model: leaving the nest? : from novice to professional / Julie Hall -- Blending for sustainability: aligning the needs of adult -- Learners and the needs of health sciences education / Paige L. McDonald, Howard O. Straker, and Laurie B. Lyons -- Training medical faculty to use adult learning principles and mentoring in clinical teaching / Kathy Peno, Elaine M. Silva Mangiante, and Rita Kenahan -- When adult learning practitioners encounter education in the health professions : challenges to theory and practice / Teresa J. Carter and Laura P. Gogia -- Collaborative leadership for sustained partnerships / Margaret H. Rice -- Shaping leadership culture : the role of adult education in developing and sustaining the next generation of women leaders / Carmela R. Nanton -- Advancing innovation in higher education / Anna K. Hultquist -- Prior learning assessment: trends and issues in U.S. post-secondary education / Henry S. Merrill -- What's in your credit hour? : quantifying intended learning outcomes in education / Frederick Carl Prasuhn and Scott Frasard -- A hypothetical model to help faculty members in the use of learning contracts with the students / Monica Fedeli, Ettore Felisatti, and Mario Giampaolo -- Personal and professional experiences to develop learning in teachers' professional qualification / Ettore Felisatti, Monica Fedeli, and Mario Giampaolo -- Integrating technology into pedagogical content knowledge in K-12 and university professional development / Kathleen B. Fabrikant, Cindy S. York, and Megan E. Morris -- Developing a repertoire of practice : online instructor dispositions and personalities / Jeral R. Kirwan and Elizabeth Roumell -- Creating strong partnerships through community coalitions / Clint Cummings and Karen Franck -- The development of Appalachian adult learners under globalization : a transformative perspective / Fujuan Tan, Lee Nabb, and Robert Sammons -- Globalization of curricula through partnerships : building competitive global learner capacity / Amy Rell and Roxanne Gonzales.
General notePapers originally presented at the 2013 AHEA/AAACE Conference.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014038903
ISBN9781623968717 (pbk.)
ISBN9781623968724 (hardcover)

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