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What is Adult Learner

Chapter 14
Ensuring Adult and Non-Traditional Learners’ Success With Technology, Design, and Structure
A learner typically characterized by being over the age of 25 and possessing characteristics that separate them from the traditional learner population.
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Postsecondary Program Design for Adult Learners
Rebecca F. Lodewyck (Center for Allied Health Education, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6762-3.ch014
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to explore the current body of literature surrounding program design to provide administrators and faculty with guidance and best practices for designing programs to support success for all students. As the national landscape of postsecondary education continues to include a substantial population of adult and non-traditional students, understanding these learners' needs is essential to designing programs that will support learner success. In the most straightforward definition, a program is a set of activities gathered for a specific purpose or outcome. Within postsecondary education, design begins with the program mission articulating the theoretical framework that provides the foundation of the program. Shaped by accreditation and regulatory requirements, the program mission drives the definition of the program outcomes, curriculum and instruction, program policy, and delivery method. Beyond the intersection of non-traditional and adult learning needs, the literature identified implications for the process of program design.
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Chapter 15
Key Aspects of Teaching and Learning in the Online Environment
An adult, considered mature in status and experience, that is in a formal or informal learning process.
Published in Chapter: Key Aspects of Teaching and Learning in the Online Environment; From: Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technologies and Adult Education Integration
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Chapter 62
Virtually Onboarding and Supporting Adult Students in College Using Web 2.0 Technologies
A student who is age 24 years or older when he/she enrolling in an institute of higher education as an undergraduate student.
Published in Chapter: Virtually Onboarding and Supporting Adult Students in College Using Web 2.0 Technologies; From: Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technologies and Adult Education Integration
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Chapter 10
Adult Learner Characteristics Important for Successful Learning in Cross-Cultural Web-Based Learning Environments in Higher Education
A person who is 25 years and above, who is involved in forms of learning. Many of the adult learners go back to school to finish a diploma or a degree or earn a new one.
Published in Chapter: Adult Learner Characteristics Important for Successful Learning in Cross-Cultural Web-Based Learning Environments in Higher Education; From: Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Online Learning in Higher Education
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Chapter 13
Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) between Businesses and Adult Education Providers
An individual socially accepted as an adult who is in a learning process interested in lifelong learning including personal, social and skill development.
Published in Chapter: Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) between Businesses and Adult Education Providers; From: Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning
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Chapter 3
Improving U.S. College Graduation Rates with Quality Online and Blended Degree Completion Programs: Lessons Learned
The term given to those students over the age of 25 who are studying toward a college-offered degree or other credential.
Published in Chapter: Improving U.S. College Graduation Rates with Quality Online and Blended Degree Completion Programs: Lessons Learned; From: Handbook of Research on Building, Growing, and Sustaining Quality E-Learning Programs
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Chapter 14
Unconventional Delivery: Developing and Implementing Service-Learning in an Online Course
Learners who are age 25 or older and are characteristically distinct from primary and secondary school learners, as well as traditional undergraduate learners in college.
Published in Chapter: Unconventional Delivery: Developing and Implementing Service-Learning in an Online Course; From: Handbook of Research on Blended Learning Pedagogies and Professional Development in Higher Education
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Chapter 14
Investigating the Adult Learners' Experience when Solving Mathematical Word Problems
The definition revolves around the learner, not the level of mathematics being studied. Knowles (1990) AU145: The in-text citation "Knowles (1990)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. argued that there four definitions of the term adult: biological, legal, social, and psychological. The last occurs at a point where self-direction comes into function and is the most central from the point of learning. In this study, adults are individuals of 18 years or older and continue their education intentionally. For some of them, it is a continuation of their school experience; for others there may be a break of a few years or more since their last formal mathematics course.
Published in Chapter: Investigating the Adult Learners' Experience when Solving Mathematical Word Problems; From: Handbook of Research on Individualism and Identity in the Globalized Digital Age
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Chapter 3
High Tech, High Touch, High Context: Social Dimensions of Learning in Online, Hybrid, and Learning Pod Environments
Typically defined as learners over the age of 25, and are often referred to as nontraditional students.
Published in Chapter: High Tech, High Touch, High Context: Social Dimensions of Learning in Online, Hybrid, and Learning Pod Environments; From: Handbook of Research on Education and Technology in a Changing Society
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Chapter 18
Asynchronicity, Access, and Attainment: Best Practices of an Adult Degree Completion Program
Nontraditional students (ages 25 or older) in postsecondary education. In this study, adult learners have attended some college but have not completed a bachelor’s degree. Adult learner will be used interchangeable with “adult students.”
Published in Chapter: Asynchronicity, Access, and Attainment: Best Practices of an Adult Degree Completion Program; From: Handbook of Research on Innovative Technology Integration in Higher Education
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Chapter 2
Massive Open Online Courses and Completion Rates: Are Self-Directed Adult Learners the Most Successful at MOOCs?
Those that have taken on adult roles, such as a parent or spouse, and are responsible for their own lives.
Published in Chapter: Massive Open Online Courses and Completion Rates: Are Self-Directed Adult Learners the Most Successful at MOOCs?; From: Handbook of Research on Individualism and Identity in the Globalized Digital Age
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Chapter 11
Collaborative Learning in the Online Environment: Cultivating Students' Interpersonal Relationships
An adult learner is an individual who participates in the learning process and has distinctive characteristics described by Knowles (1980) . These characteristics are known as principles of andragogy. The andragogy assumptions include a self-directive concept of learning, the role of learners’ experience, readiness to learn, and orientation toward practical knowledge ( Knowles, 1980 ). Adult learners may participate in college and university programs, community programs, or job training programs. In the context of this research, an adult learner is a student enrolled in an online undergraduate program in a post-secondary institution.
Published in Chapter: Collaborative Learning in the Online Environment: Cultivating Students' Interpersonal Relationships; From: Handbook of Research on Facilitating Collaborative Learning Through Digital Content and Learning Technologies
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Chapter 12
Online Strategic Discussion Forum: Models, Strategies, and Applications
An adult learner is defined “by using chronological age and additional factors such as delayed postsecondary enrollment, part-time attendance, full-time work while enrolled, financial independence, single parenthood, military service, and lack of a standard high school diploma” (Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, 2007 AU55: The in-text citation "Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, 2007" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , p. 1).
Published in Chapter: Online Strategic Discussion Forum: Models, Strategies, and Applications; From: Handbook of Research on Adult Learning in Higher Education
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Chapter 18
Engaging the Adult Learner Through Graduate Learning Communities
An adult, considered mature in status and experience, in a formal or informal learning process.
Published in Chapter: Engaging the Adult Learner Through Graduate Learning Communities; From: Encyclopedia of E-Leadership, Counseling and Training
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Chapter 7
Afrocentric Thought in Adult Education
a person, 25 years and older, who uses personal experiences and their need to know to guide learning.
Published in Chapter: Afrocentric Thought in Adult Education; From: Handbook of Research on Adult Learning in Higher Education
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Chapter 33
A Case Study Exploring Quality Standards for Quality E-Learning
Adult learners are individuals who perform roles associated by society with adults (worker, spouse, parent, responsible citizen), perceiving themselves to be responsible for his/her own life (Knowles, 1990).
Published in Chapter: A Case Study Exploring Quality Standards for Quality E-Learning; From: Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
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Chapter 142
Facilitation of Web-Based Courses Designed for Adult Learners
A student typically 25 years of age or older who is self-directed, motivated, and an active participant in his or her learning process
Published in Chapter: Facilitation of Web-Based Courses Designed for Adult Learners; From: Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
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