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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|67 pages
Fundamentals of Adult Teaching and Learning
chapter 2|17 pages
Interactive Lecture
part II|82 pages
Collaborative Methods in Teaching and Learning
part III|45 pages
Methods for Facilitating Autonomous Learning
chapter 11|14 pages
Learning Contracts, Individualized Learning Agreements, and Personal Development Plans
part IV|67 pages
Community-Based Teaching and Learning Methods
chapter 15|17 pages
Multiple Ways of Knowing
part V|91 pages
Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning Methods