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Lifelong learning, and adult education are essential for both personal and career growth. Material here is relevent to both those teaching adults, or adults interesed in continuous learning. Also of interest to companies support learning at work.


Achieving Success with Adult Learners

By L. Barnes - Enclosed are ten specific factors as they apply to adult learners and how educators can help accommodate their needs in the classroom. (Added: 28-Sep-2006 Hits: 1066 )

PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING

By Stephen Lieb - To be an effective teacher of adults requires knowledge about how adults learn best. Learn the principles of adult learning. Find out what specials needs adults have over children in the learning arena. (Added: 31-Jan-2006 Hits: 889 )

OK Career Planner | Lifelong Learning

By na - Today's job market demands that we make learning a lifelong process, constantly acquiring new skills, education, and training. Whether you're embarking on a totally new career in mid-life; going back for that advanced degree to help position yourself for a promotion; or volunteering in a field completely different from your paid job, lifelong learning promises a life filled with excitement, wonder, and healthy challenges. new (Added: 31-Oct-2011 Hits: 131 )

Adult Learning - ACTIVE vs PASSIVE LEARNING

By L. Dee Fink - Many college teachers today want to move past passive learning to active learning, to find better ways of engaging students in the learning process. But many teachers feel a need for help in imagining what to do, in or out of class, that would constitute a meaningful set of active learning activities. The model below offers a way of conceptualizing the learning process in a way that may assist teachers in identifying meaningful forms of active learning. (Added: 28-Sep-2006 Hits: 1086 )

MOTIVATING STUDENTS

By Barbara Gross Davis - Some students seem naturally enthusiastic about learning, but many need-or expect-their instructors to inspire, challenge, and stimulate them: "Effective learning in the classroom depends on the teacher's ability ... to maintain the interest that brought students to the course in the first place" (Ericksen, 1978, p. 3). Whatever level of motivation your students bring to the classroom will be transformed, for better or worse, by what happens in that classroom. (Added: 28-Sep-2006 Hits: 615 )

Work-based Learning: implications for Higher Ed. - informal learning at work

By Jim Gallacher and Fiona Reeve - This paper will address the increasing importance of links between the academy and the workplace in supporting lifelong learning. In particular we will focus on the development of programmes of WBL which attempt to cross the divide by supporting, assessing and accrediting learning from work. In addressing learning in the workplace these programmes are beginning to incorporate notions of competence and of knowledge created in action into a structure of higher education awards. new (Added: 8-Feb-2012 Hits: 0 )

Malcolm Knowles, informal adult education, self-direction and andragogy

By NA - A champion of andragogy, self-direction in learning and informal adult education, Malcolm S. Knowles was a very influential figure in the adult education field. Here we review his life and achievements, and assess his contribution. (Added: 24-Mar-2003 Hits: 4661 )

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