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Direct linkCastles, Jane – Active Learning in Higher Education the Journal of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, 2004
This research is part of a larger study of the factors affecting part-time adult learners. It covers a literature review dealing with three areas of factors that might affect adult learners: (i) social and environmental, (ii) traumatic and (iii) intrinsic factors. This produced 36 factors and was followed by a qualitative study to validate and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Open Universities, Adult Students, Adult Learning
