English as a Second Language (ESL) Distance Education: Blended Learning for Adult College Classes Valerie Traurig The George Washington University EDUC 236introduction of online work in my class has been supplemental. Its use has increased as my own skills have improved, as my students indicate ...
Any tool “designed to extend a learner’s capacity for effective action and that requires skill and certain strategies to use efficiently” is a learning technology (Burge 2001, p. 146). A well-structured face-to-face group discussion, a pencil, and print materials fit this definition as do...
His teacher told me that help would still be available later to get him out on his own, so I allowed him to stay a couple years after graduation, so he could take classes at the community college. The classes never happened, and the two years that I had agreed to turned into ...
The college entrance examinations in China will begin in less than a month. This set of pictures captures life on the campus of Beijing Chen Jing Lun High School in the last days before the final showdown. Chinese hiker went missing at Mt. Whitney in west U.S. A 27-year-old female Ch...
His brother is an unemployed college dropout who’s just found out he might be a father. His grandmother is slowly losing a battle with Alzheimer’s. And he’s overwhelmed with unbelievable grief after his boyfriend’s suicide a year earlier. So when he’s abducted by aliens and given the...
So my practical, part-time college job was working as a school lunch lady at the local high school. When school fees and book charges were due, I knew I would still have at least one meal a day at school while waiting for my next paycheck. One year I signed up for summer classe...
aMillions of Americans take part in adult education programs. Some adults are completing high school, college or graduate school work. They attend classes designed especially for working people on weekends or at night. Other adults take classes by mail or on their computers. For example, the Uni...
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Amanda Foody has always considered imagination to be our best attempt at magic. When she is not writing young adult fantasy about spectacle, extravagance, and prestige, she is figuring out this whole “adult” thing. After graduating from the College of William and Mary, she now lives near Ph...
According to Jeannie McCoy, recreation director of the community services program at East Los Angeles College, most adult beginning swim students “have had a bad experience in the water.” Cox said the typical non-swimming adult who comes to the YMCA has “been in the water a few times as...