Scenario-based learning is in line with strategies for teaching adults known as andragogy, a term popularized in contemporary higher education by Malcolm Knowles (1913–1997), a central figure in U.S.

NASHUA – No need to jump around with an air guitar as your boots are stompin’ and hair is flyin’ and hips are pulsing in a reverse twerk to compositions of whole notes, half notes and shrill staccato ...

One study compared adults ages 60 to 85 who learned to play the piano or did not. The piano group significantly improved memory, information processing speed, mental planning, verbal fluency, and ...

An Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute study details the barriers for employers interested in expanding work-based learning opportunities for both student and adult learners. (Getty Images) Hoosier ...

Adults and adolescents in the United States say schools are not up to the task of preparing children for a successful future, concludes a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit research and ...

The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate. Adults have a number of advantages when it comes to learning a second language, and it comes with major benefits.

In most adults, learning and thinking plateau and then begin to decline after age 30 or 40. People start to perform worse in tests of cognitive abilities such as processing speed, the rate at which ...

Aswathy Ammothumkandy receives funding from American Epilepsy Society, and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Michael A. Bonaguidi receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, ...

A groundbreaking study from University of California, Riverside, reveals that older adults who challenged themselves to learn new skills during the COVID-19 pandemic fared significantly better ...