Category: Learning Theory

Adults continue to learn throughout their lifetime, either by choice or by necessity. Instructors in colleges and workplaces should consider a different methodology of teaching than that used with youth. (Knowles, 2005)...

Comfortable Seating, Learning Resource Centre, Edge Hill University (Photo credit: jisc_infonet)The adult learning environment has undergone changes with the introduction of Knowles concepts of learning. (Knowles, 2005)This...

Teachers that love to learn are often the best instructors. They create an excitement in the process of guiding and relaying information. Through preparation of materials, research and discovery, the act of teaching is the act...

Teaching and learning are interrelated.  Adults draw upon their experiences when they become students. Teachers draw upon their past as well. Unfortunately, all students and teachers have been in a classroom of ineffective...

It is time for a paradigm shift in education and with the current technological advances the time is hastening for change. Philosophies and theories of the past may be studied and analyzed but they fail to cover all the...

Andragogy aligns with constructivism as a theory and a method employing new techniques that engage adult students in online learning.  The constructivist paradigm is suited to the adult learner who has a cabinet-full of...

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