Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. (Oct. 16, 2025) — This fall, SBCC School of Extended Learning invites older adults to discover or ...

When Emily Cataneo and Arshia Simkin graduated from their Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing program in2019, they realized there weren't many opportunities outside of a university setting to ...

Have you held a professional development course at your organization and found your audience to seem disengaged and disinterested? Have you put hours into developing a curriculum, working on your ...

As more colleges face the reality of a declining traditional student population, there’s a common belief that adult students are where the growth is. But the reality is more complicated. There are ...

Andragogy, a term initially coined by the German educator Alexander Kapp in 1833, was later popularized by American educator Malcolm Knowles. It signifies a shift in educational methods and practices, ...

Safety training’s biggest problem can be summed up in two words: knowledge transfer. An abundance of teaching points are crammed into every lesson, but all too often, relatively little learning ...

So the next time someone dismisses a student by saying, “He is just a backbencher,” remember those silent seats at the back often nurture future artists, innovators, leaders, and world-changers who ...