Understanding Adult Learners by Allisen Penn The more you understand adults as learners, the more effectively you can design educational experiences for them. This lesson summarizes some of the key characteristics of adult learners and how these characteristics influence how you teach adults to become effective advocates for Extension.

This study investigates the andragogical and pedagogical teaching philosophies of online instructors at the California State University, Long Beach in the Spring Semester of 2010. Drawing from reflective adult education theory, this article proposes a new model for this reflective adult education theory. It is either the helping relationship (andragogical philosophy) or the directing relationsh...

The study surveyed the self-study habits among Grade 12 learners in senior secondary schools Zambezi region, Namibia. Using quantitative research approach, a structured survey questionnaire was used to collect data on wide issues related learners’ as observed from researchers’ experiences dealing with diverse and literature. A total of 750 (consisting 420 males 330 females) selected using simpl...

This case study explores how a constructivist-based instructional design helped adult learners learn in an online learning environment. Two classes of adult learners pursuing professional development and registered in a webbased course were studied. The data consisted of course documents, submitted artefacts, surveys, interviews, in-class observations, and online observations. The study found t...

this study set out to investigate the distribution of the syntactic properties associatedwith the prodrop parameter by persian-speaking l2 learners of english in an attemptto examine the (un)attainability of native-like knowledge and (in)accessibility of ugin adult sla. to do so, 92 participants were assigned into different levels of l2knowledge based on their performances on the oxford placeme...

Many explanations have been offered for the widely attested problems L2 learners experience with the English article system. One influential proposal from formal linguistics is the Article Choice Parameter and associated Fluctuation Hypothesis (Ionin, Ko & Wexler, 2004) which states that learners of English fluctuate between correct and incorrect usage by sometimes selecting articles on the bas...

Currently, the assessment of learners in conventional e-learning systems is only one dimension in which learners are required to produce answers, for example, by selecting multiple-choice, true/false, or matching answers or by giving short answers. This type of assessment still lacks interactions among the learners, and thus, it might not fully support learning. Many researchers have endeavored...