6.+Assignment+Due+March+30th

Assignment:

In adult learning folder on BlackBoard, 5 or 6 links related to adult learning (can use outside sources), look at the sources & come up with 7 of the major characteristics of adult learning. Identify the resources that connect to your characteristic.

>> "Adult learning differs from children’s learning in that it is self-directed, problem-centered, experience based, and more often relevant to life." ([|Learning Theory & The Adult Learner]) >
 * **Adults direct their own learning**
 * **Adult Learning**
 * **Adults need feedback on progress and assignments**
 * [|Hawaii] education site explains the importance of feedback in adult education:
 * " In addition, participants need specific knowledge of their learning results (//feedback// ). Feedback must be specific, not general. Participants must also see a //reward// for learning. The reward does not necessarily have to be monetary; it can be simply a demonstration of benefits to be realized from learning the material."

> > >> "Experiential Learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience" > > > > >
 * **In adult learning, the material must be relevant to their current career, or the career they are working towards**
 * Malcom Knowles states in his article that adult learners must know what they want to get out of their learning experience in order for successful learning to occur. ([|Knowles Article])
 * **Adults learn through experiential learning.**
 * Wikipedia states that...
 * Adult learners have a lot of experience that they are able to use to make connections to the content they are learning. ([|Vicky Lara])
 * **A****dult learners expect respect and need to feel supported**
 * Adult learners should not feel like they are being spoken down too, but they are building on their previous knowledge with the appropriate amount of support from an instructor. [|("Adults as Learners"])
 * **Adult learners return to education at different times in their life, because of this, they have different goals then elementary and high school students.**
 * This is important for the instructor to understand, because these students are willingly in their education classes and in the following article it is explained that they strive harder to impress their teachers and make it known that they are actively working with the content provided, as long a it pertains to their experiences. [|(Patient Teaching])
 * Also, many adult learners have not been in school for a period of time, so they may not be accustomed to new learning styles and/or new technologies that are used. ([|"Treat Learners Like Adults"])
 * Also... here is an [|article] I found on seven different characteristics of adult education written by Dorothy Billington