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Week 10

  • Adult Versus Child Learners
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  • WELCOMEWelcome to Week 10! In this last week of structured readings, lectures, and assignments on adult learning theory, you’ll have an opportunity to discuss the differences between learning and learning styles of children and those of adults. Research shows that life events, typically around the age of 30, can lead a person to begin or continue a new learning journey. What life events have you experienced to continue your educational journey? If you’re continuing your education and are in a lower age cohort, are there life experiences you’ve endured that will keep you on a lifelong-learner journey?
  • TO-DO LIST0%
    Learn: Read Chapter 16, Reflections on Learning in Adulthood. Learn: Read the Week 10 lecture documents. Discuss: Participate in the discussion, Adult Learning: Theoretical Reflections. Assignment: Complete Reflection: Theories Into Practice.
  • LEARNReadings
    From Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide:
    • Chapter 16: Reflections on Learning in Adulthood.
    • These files contain information related to the assigned readings.
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  • Adult Learning: Theoretical Reflections
    Click the linked activity title to access this weekly discussion. If you need help with completing discussions, watch this for more information.
  • Reflection: Theories Into Practice
    For this assignment, you will reflect on the present adult learning theories that you have studied in the course. You will use such reflections in order to develop your own theory and then speculate upon the future of adult education theories. 
    Write a 56 page paper in which you:
    1. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of three adult learning theories that you have studied throughout the course. Evaluate the soundness of each theory in the way it addresses its target learner audience, related teaching and learning environment, and the adult learning processes.  
    2. Develop your own adult learning theory in which you:
      1. Indicate related theories to which you subscribe and thus have influenced your new theory. Justify your response.
      2. Describe the target learner audience, related teaching and learning environment, and the learning processes that your new theory seeks to address.
      3. Determine the primary manner in which your theory would serve a particular population.
      4. Analyze the existing void within adult learning theories that your new theory seeks to fill. 
    3. Predict the future path of the field of adult education, and suggest whether or not existing learning theoriesincluding yourswould address the challenges of serving a diverse adult learner population. Provide a rationale for your response.
    4. Recommend an approach to designing an inclusive theory for adult learning. Defend or challenge the following assertion: One inclusive theory would meet the needs of adult learners within McLuhans global village. Justify your response.
    5. Use at least five quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
    6. This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Contact your professor for any additional information.
      The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
    • Analyze adult learning theories relative to new theories, the future of adult education, and inclusiveness.