ABSTRACT

This book equips instructors with fresh, practical teaching and training methods to support adult learning in both formal and continuing educational environments.

An extensive, how-to guide, Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning covers adult teaching and learning fundamentals, collaborative teaching methods, methods for facilitating autonomous learning, community-based teaching methods, and technology-enhanced teaching and learning approaches. Readers will emerge with an in-depth understanding of each method, made comprehensive by the inclusion of definitions, philosophical and/or theoretical underpinnings, advantages and limitations, practical guidelines for application, and ample real-world examples.

Ideal for any educator working with adult learners, this book offers a toolbox of approaches designed to enhance reader understanding and practice of adult instruction.

chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction

Learning Theory and Methods

part I|67 pages

Fundamentals of Adult Teaching and Learning

chapter 2|17 pages

Interactive Lecture

Engaging Active Learning/Interactive Teaching and Learning with Lecture

chapter 5|17 pages

Teaching Perspectives

A Philosophical Foundation for Methods 1

part II|82 pages

Collaborative Methods in Teaching and Learning

part III|45 pages

Methods for Facilitating Autonomous Learning

part IV|67 pages

Community-Based Teaching and Learning Methods