For most people, walking across a stage in a cap and gown signals the start of adulthood. However, for individuals with ...

Director Cheryl Yaeger talks to students at Academy of Learning for Life. The half-day program was founded 15 years ago for mentally and physically disabled adults, and is now searching for a bigger ...

The science of adult learning provides a road map for strengths-based, age-inclusive programme design and helps turn classrooms into vibrant hubs of intergenerational learning ...

A comprehensive national careers advice service could do more for lifelong learning than any new qualification ...

There are 36 million adults lacking basic literacy in the United States. Many of them might be considered relics of the industrial age supplanted by an era of knowledge work, but an estimated 12 ...

This is what’s been engrained in us. We’re even led to believe that we can’t learn new skills, or take in certain information such as language, past a certain age. But, a new theory holds that it ...

What Do Harvey and Irma have to do with learning? When (what we thought were) once in five hundred year storms hit every other week, it suggests there is something new going on--and another sign that ...

The songbird is among the classical species studied as a model for understanding the neurobiology of language. It uses song and vocalization to communicate information for its survival. The songbird’s ...

Whether it’s picking up the steps of a new line dance or learning to order dinner and buy movie tickets in Italian, lifelong learning for seniors can lead to cognitive, emotional, physical and social ...