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Adult Learning - What Is Adult Learning

What is adult learning? How is it different from the way you learned as a child? What are the controversies and discussions surrounding adult learning?
5 Ways to Improve Adult Literacy
Adult literacy is a global problem. One in five adults cannot read. Here are 5 ways you can help improve adult literacy.
What Is Adult Education?
What is adult education? So many adults are returning to the classroom that the term "adult education" has become somewhat confusing. Adult education in the widest sense is any form of learning adults engage in beyond traditional schooling. In the narrowest sense, adult education is about literacy, about adults learning to read the most basic materials.
What Is Adult Learning?
Thinking about going back to school? Whether it's for your GED, your degree, continuing education, or personal development, knowing the principles of adult learning can make going back to school easier.
Adult Education - What Does Adult Education Mean to You
What does adult education mean to you? Are you working toward your GED? Taking technical courses to further your degree? Returning to school for a degree? Do you teach adult education? Talk to us.
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prolific writer whose views on education are often quoted. He is known for espousing that the "great aim of education is not knowledge, but action," and that "science was the knowledge of greatest worth." This is a collection of famous Spencer quotes.
Baby Boomers Getting Degrees
Baby boomers are changing the age, and the meaning, of retirement by going back to school and getting new degrees.
Andragogy: Teaching Adults
From the Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, a chart on the differences between andragogy and pedagogy.
Self-Regulated Learning
Heavily academic, this article by Anthony R. Artino, Jr. analyzes the importance of self-regulation in the successful application of online learning for adults.

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