What is Adult Education

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It is part of extension education which is aimed at educating adults including educating at work place. Learn more in: Education Collaboration Development: A Blended Shore Education Approach to Sustainable Development

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A type of education that takes place outside the school system or one that takes place within the school system but in a flexible and collaborative manner. Learn more in: Assessment of Learning Needs of Street Vendors in Ghana: Implications for Adult Education

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Programs and processes that intentionally support the learning of adults. Learn more in: A Critical Theory of Adult and Community Education

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“Activities intentionally designed for the purpose of bringing about learning among those whose age, social roles, or self-perceptions, define them as adults. AU13: Could not find a publisher location in a book reference (in reference "Self-Authorship, 2010"). Learn more in: Designing Engaging Instruction for the Adult Learners

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The practice of teaching and educating adults and may take place in the workplace or through continuing education at secondary schools, colleges, or universities. Learn more in: Partnerships between University and Adult Education Providers

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As used in this chapter, refers to both formal and informal learning activities undertaken by, and designed for, those beyond the age of traditional university students. Learn more in: Moderating Discussion Groups Using Computer Mediated Communication

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All education and training activities aimed at acquiring skills and knowledge for individuals over the age of 18 for formal (secondary and high school), vocational, literacy, arts and hobby purposes. Learn more in: Managing the Utilization of Technologies in Adult Education, Training, and Administration: The Case Study of Turkish MoNE

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The education of adults, often for the development of personal skills, socialization into the U.S. or citizenship. Learn more in: Using Technology to Reintegrate Learning and Doing: IBM's Approach and its Implications for Education

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A practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values.[1] It can mean any form of learning adults engage in beyond traditional schooling, encompassing basic literacy to personal fulfillment as a lifelong learner. Learn more in: Generalizable Models for Online Professional Learning Communities for America's K-12 Teachers

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The practice of teaching and educating adults and may take place in the workplace, cooperative extension, or continuing education at secondary schools, at a college or university. Learn more in: Barriers to Adult Learning

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A practice in which adults engage in systematic, formalized, and often self-directed activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes. Learn more in: College Faculty as Adult Learners: An Important Role in the New Age

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The planned fostering of learning about depression that includes program design, pedagogy and evaluation of learning. Learn more in: “The Illness that Dare Not Speak Its Name”: An Auto-Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Adult Learning in and on Clinical Depression

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The provision of knowledge to adults through institutionalized educational institutions and schools. Learn more in: Adult Education and Globalization

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This term is used to show awareness of the reality that many adults come to formal educational programs with different orientations to study, motivations, and prior experiences from younger learners. These differences need to be accommodated in the learning designs used. Learn more in: Effective Technology-Mediated Education for Adult Chinese Learners

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All forms of non-vocational adult learning, whether of a formal, non-formal or informal nature. Learn more in: Ubiquitous Teachers' Training and Lessons Learned with the uProf! Model

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The entire body of organized educational processes, whatever the content, level, or method, whether formal or otherwise, whether they prolong or replace initial education in schools or colleges, and universities as well as in apprenticeship, whereby persons regarded as adults by the society to which they belong develop their abilities, enrich their knowledge, improve their technical or professional qualifications, or turn them in a new direction and bring about changes in their attitudes or behavior in the twofold perspective of full personal development and participation in balanced, independent, social, economic, and cultural development. (Definition by UNESCO, 1976. Records of the General Conference. Volume 1. Resolutions, “Annex I. Recommendation on the development of adult education. Content of adult education”, resolution 19C/Annex I.I.1, p. 4) Learn more in: Facilitating the Educational Process in Synchronous Group Advisory Online Meetings in the Hellenic Open University

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As used in this chapter, refers to both formal and informal learning activities undertaken by, and designed for, those beyond the age of traditional university students. Learn more in: Moderating Discussion Groups Using Computer Mediated Communication

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The concept of adult education in the context of this discussion means those actions and activities in which educators and students engage within formal, informal, and non-formal settings or programs of education, training, and development. Learn more in: Framing a Philosophy for 21st Century Global Recurrent Education: Considerations on the Role of the Adult Educator

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Any activity or program deliberately designed to satisfy the learning needs or interests of persons who are by their maturity considered adults. Learn more in: Impact of E-Learning on Adult Education: A Changing Postmodern Approach

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Includes the entire body of educational processes, whatever their content, level or method, whereby persons regarded as adults by their society enhance abilities, enrich knowledge, improve technical or professional qualifications or turn them to a new direction. These educational processes –whether formal, non-formal or informal– are aimed at bringing about attitude changes and independent, full personal development as well as a balanced social, economic and cultural development. Learn more in: Building Interaction in Adults' Online Courses: A Case Study on Training E-Educators of Adults

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A kind of education given to people with a reservoir of experience. Education for people who are responsible in all directions so that they can fend for themselves and others even in critical situation to enhance societal development. Learn more in: Potentials of Selected Information and Communication Technologies in Adult Education Programmes in Nigeria

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All forms of non-vocational adult learning, whether of a formal, non-formal or informal nature. Learn more in: Social Semantic Web for Lifelong Learners (SSW4LL)

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Formal education aimed for learners who are over 18 years of age or whose age for compulsory education has passed. Learn more in: Towards Blended Learning Designs Fostering Adults' Social Capital: What Do Empirical Findings Reveal?

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All forms of non-vocational adult learning, whether of a formal, non-formal or informal nature. Learn more in: An Open Learning Format for Lifelong Learners' Empowerment

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Formal and informal learning instruction provided beyond secondary education system designed to prepare individuals (adolescents and adults) to improve their potentials and achieve their personal, social and economic goals in life. Learn more in: Foundations of Adult Education, Learning Characteristics, and Instructional Strategies

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All forms of non-vocational adult learning, whether of a formal, non-formal or informal nature. Learn more in: Ubiquitous Professional Training for Teachers using the uProf! Model