Teaching to the Adult Learner
 
Welcome to the Michigan Adult Education Professional Development (MAEPD) web-based training on The Adult Learner. If this is your first MAEPD online training module, it is a good idea to become familiar with the learning environment in which you will be participating. Take just a few minutes to explore the types of interactivity that you will encounter during this training on The Adult Learner as well as other web-based trainings on this site. Click on the Getting Started link on the blue bar at the top of this page to access these short tutorials. You may wish to complete some of the different tutorials to become familiar with web-based training and some of the different activities in which you will be participating through MAEPD training modules.

Perspectives on adult learning have changed dramatically over the decades. This MAEPD online training will provide you with the basics of adult learning. As you well know, the area of adult learning is extremely broad. This brief training will certainly not include all of the information published on this subject, however, by the end of this training you will be able to:

  • Identify the main points regarding adult learning theory
  • Distinguish between andragogy and pedagogy
  • Determine the motives and barriers for learning
  • Define principles for effective adult learning

Ready to begin? First you will need to Login. Click the underlined text below to proceed. When you click on either of these links, a page will open with login information. When you are finished logging in, close the window and proceed to the next page in this learning module by clicking the Don't click here, click on the same image in the upper right hand corner!. This button is located in the upper right hand corner and will allow you to proceed through the web-based training. You will also notice on following pages a button that looks like this This button will be located in the upper right hand corner and will allow you to go back a page . This button will allow you to go back to the previous page, one at a time.

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Developed by Florida Human Resources Development, Inc. (FHRD), this website is authorized by the Michigan Department of Career Development and funded through a grant under Section 222(a)(2) State Leadership Activities of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Title II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, amended.