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Katie Brenny; Susan M. Yelich Biniecki – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Rural agriculture retailers, or those engaged in the production of food, fiber, and fuel, are pressed to find just-in-time solutions for continual learning with their adult employees, specifically millennials, the generation who will assume future leadership roles. Adult educators in rural settings, or lower populated areas, are encountering rapid…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Rural Areas, Agriculture, Technology Uses in Education
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Santos, Katie V. – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2018
In pursuit of enhancing the transfer of learning from the classroom to a clinical setting, we revisit five proven strategies in education. These strategies are not at all novel, but when viewed through a different elevated lens, the perspective is reborn and very enticing to the adult learner. With a multisensory spin, new life breathes into these…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Teaching Methods
Field, John – Adults Learning, 2011
Rioting usually achieves nothing in itself, but it can tell the people a lot about their society. For anyone interested in adult learning, the experience of the public debate has been salutary, with any attempt to explain the events being dismissed as "condoning" the looters. While it would be arrogant to assume that everyone now knows…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Activism, Foreign Countries
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Worley, Karen – Adult Learning, 2011
Faculty and administrators of higher education today face a challenge with their student populations, many of whom are part of what is known as the net generation. As students become more technologically advanced, faculty must be technologically ready to meet the needs of students. Many college faculty and administrators are from earlier…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Technological Advancement