Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
• Traditional
• Non-traditional
• Generational Issues
– Baby Boomer
– Generation X
– Generation Y
– Millenials
• Learning
– Teaching
– Training
– Knowledge
– New ideas
– Change in behavior
– For its own sake
• Andragogy
Principles of Adult Learning
• Need to know
Principles of Adult Learning
• Need to know
• Shared philosophy
• Be specific
• Positive, constructive
Adapted from Orgnero, M.C., & Bell, S. (November, 2009). Making feedback work: Feedback principles that
enhance leanring and performance in workplace and academic settings. AAACE Annual Conference.
Principles of Adult Learning
• Need to know
• Role of Experience
Learning Styles
• Importance
• Examples:
– Memletics High Performance Learning
• http://www.memletics.com/manual/learning-styles.asp
• Seven Styles: Visual, Verbal, Aural, Social, Physical, Solitary,
Logical
• Need to know
• Role of Experience
• Need to know
• Role of Experience
• Collaborative Inquiry
Principles of Adult Learning
• Need to know
• Role of Experience
• Collaborative Inquiry
• Brain theory
– Experience
– Neuroflexibility
– Context
– Emotional connections
– Multiple sensory
– Create meaning
• What is it?
• How do we do it?
Final Thoughts
References
Ashmore, R. A. (April, 1987). The adult learner: implications and activities for
implementation. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the Western College
Reading and Learning Association; Albuquerque, NM.
Caffarella, R. (2002). Planning programs for adult learners: A practical guide for
educators, trainers, and staff developers (2nd Ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Freire, P. (200). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum Inernational.
Gibbons, H., & Wentworth, G. (2001). Andrological and Pedagogical Training
Differences for Online Instructors. Online Journal of Distance Learning Education,
4(3), http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall43/gibbons_wentworth43.html.
Knowles, M.S., Holton, E.F. & Swanson, R.A. (2005). The adult learner: The definitive
class in adult education and human resource development. (6th ed.). Boston:
Elsevier.
Lawler, P.A., & King, K. P. (2000). Planning for effective faculty development: Using
adult learner strategies. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing.
References