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Civic universities must engage adult learners

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That fits with other research that suggests adult education can raise job satisfaction, carry a wage premium and even boost productivity. Adult learners, even on hobby courses, have been found to be more likely to give up smoking, take up exercise, and improve their diet.

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The AI Advantage: Boosting Student Engagement in Self-paced Learning through AI 

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AI empowers educators to provide students with tailored learning paths, immersive experiences, and real-time feedback—elements that boost engagement and facilitate deeper learning. In today’s fast-paced academic environment, instructors are often hard-pressed for time to provide comprehensive feedback to each student.

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

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History Timeline Instructor draws a timeline while adding hand-drawn pictures and text to mark specific points on the timeline with verbal explanation. Lightboards hold the potential to transform learning in the asynchronous online environment. Advances in Physiology Education , 40 (4), 509–513. Cambridge Adult Education.

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The AI Advantage: Boosting Student Engagement in Self-paced Learning through AI 

Faculty Focus

AI empowers educators to provide students with tailored learning paths, immersive experiences, and real-time feedback—elements that boost engagement and facilitate deeper learning. In today’s fast-paced academic environment, instructors are often hard-pressed for time to provide comprehensive feedback to each student.

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

History Timeline Instructor draws a timeline while adding hand-drawn pictures and text to mark specific points on the timeline with verbal explanation. Lightboards hold the potential to transform learning in the asynchronous online environment. Advances in Physiology Education , 40 (4), 509–513. Cambridge Adult Education.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Most notably, it must be clear that each institution has an environment in which Latino students can thrive. Current enrollment is 8,000 students with around 61% in semester credit courses and 39% pursuing adult education. They must present evidence of effectiveness in institutional practices serving Latino students.

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SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

SRHE

Open access John Sherer (North Carolina) blogged for The Scholarly Kitchen on 23 March 2023 about a recent initiative to publish open access monographs in history, reporting technical problems, author resistance but also much greater take-up/use, with about three times as many reported individual engagements as even a successful paywalled monograph.