Editor’s note: This article is part of Teaching the Adult Learner: Practical Strategies for Higher Ed Success, a six-part series exploring how colleges can better support nontraditional students.

Not all pathways to academic and professional success are the same. If you are a working-adult or returning student, you bring life experience that gives you broad insight and enables you to translate ...

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.

After more than a decade of teaching in both private and public universities, one thing is clear to me: Traditional teaching methods like slide-to-slide PowerPoint presentations no longer engage ...

A movement to help students understand rather than memorize has had sprawling effects, including pushback on teaching methods ...