How to Reduce the Dropout Rate of Adult Learners in Higher Education

It seems to be safe to make an argument that there are at least two important factors that influence adult learners to get motivated or de-motivated to learn via distance education options. The two factors are:
1. Adult learners are goal-oriented; therefore, distance education programs should provide learning environments where they can [...]

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Targeting the Enthusiast Adult Lifelong Learners

So how about the enthusiast – the person who might want to be a great home cook but does not want a $20K culinary education, or the art enthusiast who wants to learn graphic design, but doesn’t want or need a degree. As the baby boomers age and retire, there will be many of [...]

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Moving from Classroom Practice to Online Teaching, Assumptions and Beliefs

A literature review was conducted to investigate the adult education and faculty development literature and research to discover what is known about changes or transformation in teaching assumptions and beliefs when faculty prepare to teach online or when they are engaged in online teaching, and to uncover any gaps in research involving these changes. There [...]

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Teaching Strategies for Generation X

This Digest investigates ways in which the learning characteristics of the young adults classified as Generation X reflect the need for the new teaching and learning strategies promoted by cognitive scientists, such as learning in context, cooperative learning, and real-world application of knowledge.
Source: ERIC Digest

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