March 19 - 22, 2006, São Paulo, BRAZIL
World Congress on Computer Science, Engineering and Technology EducationAdults students (AS) bring to Higher Education
(HE) and to the learning process a wide range of life
experiences. The use of these can assist academic learning
and enable AS to become independent reflective learners.
Research is urgent as more adults are returning to HE,
because of the push policy for lifelong learning – at national
government, European Commission (EC) and Bologna
Process levels. The project PRILHE (Promoting Reflective
Independent Learning in HE), funded by the EC Socrates-
Grundtvig Programme, aims to identify the learning
processes which enable AS in HE to become independent
reflective learners and how best to support these processes.
Within this research, both quantitative and qualitative
methods were used to determine how students organise their
studies and to discover their learning experiences. This
paper describes the design and development of the system
for the web survey data collection, taking into account the
characteristics of information systems quality models
