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1. Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education
- www.oise.utoronto.ca
- Adult Education Community.
- L'Association Canadienne pour l'Etude de l'Education des Adultes (ACééA) Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) Please click on the button for the information you wish to review.
- 5th International Conference on Adult Education, CONFINTEA + 6.
- Links to Internet Resources for Research in Adult Education .
- Encyclopedia of Canadian Adult Education.
- Recently published books and articles on Adult Education in Canada. ...
- Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education - Submission Guidelines 2002 .
- Abstracts of previously published articles: Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education .
- Courses and Programmes in the field of Adult Education in Canada. ...
2. C-PAL: Home
- www.c-pal.net
- Supported by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education.
- Welcome to Community Partnerships for Adult Learning, a site dedicated to encouraging the creation of partnerships to improve the quality of adult education in the United States.
- With the help of experts across the country, we’ve selected a broad range of high-quality community building and adult education resources for this site, including how-to’s, research reports, and links to relevant websites, sorted by topic and potential user. ...
- The C-PAL website was rated “Superior +” for innovation, effectiveness, and adaptability, and “Excellent” for design and readability by the Focus Bulletin (January, 2004) issued by the Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education of the Pennsylvania Department of Education. ...
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4. PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING
- www.hcc.hawaii.edu
- PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING.
- Despite the apparent truth, adult learning is a relatively new area of study. The field of adult learning was pioneered by Malcom Knowles. He identified the following characteristics of adult learners: .
- Their teachers must actively involve adult participants in the learning process and serve as facilitators for them. ...
- Therefore, instructors must identify objectives for adult participants before the course begins. ...
- Instructors must acknowledge the wealth of experiences that adult participants bring to the classroom. ...
- Motivating the Adult Learner.
- Another aspect of adult learning is motivation. At least six factors serve as sources of motivation for adult learning: .
- What motivates adult learners? Typical motivations include a requirement for competence or licensing, an expected (or realized) promotion, job enrichment, a need to maintain old skills or learn new ones, a need to adapt to job changes, or the need to learn in order to comply with company directives. ...
- The best way to motivate adult learners is simply to enhance their reasons for enrolling and decrease the barriers. ... A successful strategy includes showing adult learners the relationship between training and an expected promotion. ...
- Although adult learning is relatively new as field of study, it is just as substantial as traditional education and carries and potential for greater success. ... The best motivators for adult learners are interest and selfish benefit. ...
5. VALUE: Voice of Adult Literacy United for Education is the US
- www.brown.edu
- Adult Learners .
- sites for, by and about adult learners.
- VALUE: Voice of Adult Literacy United for Education is the US national adult organization; information on this page comprises learner-generated content as well as resources designed for adult learning. ...
- VALUE's Third Adult Learner Leadership InstituteTampa, Florida, June 26-28, 2003 .
- Adult learners address the Governor's Task Force on Adult Literacy - June, 2004. ...
- Information for and about adult learners, as well as learners' writing and opinions about adult education appear on this page. ...
- Literacy Tools from the National Adult Literacy Agency in Ireland - online exercises, as well as exercises to print and complete off line. ...
- great resources: Students Meeting Students Students: Putting a Student Conference Together - one of a series of books developed by adult learners in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ...
- Links to sites for learners and teachers / resources related to or created by adult learners .
- What learners had to say to the government - results of a survey of Canadian adult learners; the full report provides the questions asked, and learners' responses. ...
- Adult Learners' Literacy Testimonials - from adult learners in Manitoba, Canada. ...
- BLAST - Building Leadership through Adult Student Training; New Mexico's student leadership organization. ...
- Discoveries, stories written by adult new readers enrolled in BoulderReads!, Career Planning Guide for Adult Learners - interesting questions to consider while thinking about getting or changing jobs. ...
- Exploring Cultures - bilingual writings (in Spanish and English) from adult learners in a Washington, DC Even Start program, about a variety of topics, including poems, opinions, recipes, photos and pen pal letters. ...
- Four personal essays on Literacy - Three adult learners and one counsellor recount their personal stories and struggles with illiteracy. ...
- E-Square - As described in Bright Ideas (Summer 98), E-Square is 'an electronic neighborhood for adult literacy, ESL, and basic education students and their teachers. ...
6. Literacy Online - Technology Utilization Survey
- www.literacyonline.org
- Instructional Technology Utilization Survey of Mid-Western Adult Literacy Programs.
- National Center on Adult Literacy, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.
- The purpose of this survey was to take a snapshot of the current state and future needs as of 1997 of adult literacy education programs in the states served by the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium. ... The Survey Questionnaire was divided into nine subsections addressing a range of topics on the use of technology in adult literacy programs and instruction. ...
- Mailing lists were obtained from state directors of adult literacy in each of the states. ...
- The 154 respondents serve more than 71,500 adult learners each year.
- Software Use in Adult Literacy Instruction .
- Introduction | Survey Questionnaire | Descriptive Statistics | Technology Use of Programs | Software Use in Adult Literacy Instruction | Computer Usage/Access by Teachers | Computer Usage/Access by Students | Inventory of Available Computer Technology | Networking and Telecommunications | Finances | Needs Assessment: Increasing Technology Use.
7. CONNECT - Canada's Resource Publication on Technology & Adult Literacy - June/July 2003 - Cover
- www.nald.ca
- In the late 80’s I piloted a Pathfinder Computer Managed Learning system in my college Adult Basic Education classroom. In the early 90’s, I completed a Masters in curriculum and design with a focus on the use of technology to assist adult upgrading learners.
- The resulting thesis project hypothesized that adult educators could use the tools provided by the rapidly growing worldwide connection of communities called the Internet to support the development of independent, self-directed, lifelong learners (Buck, 1995). ...
- With the assistance of the National Adult Literacy Database we are now able to provide readers with easy access to over two hundred articles contained in previous issues of CONNECT.
- Thank you to our funders, the National Literacy Secretariat, the National Adult Literacy Database for their web services, our Advisory Committee members, our contributing writers and our staff at the Ottawa- Carleton District School Board. ...
8. NCSALL National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
- gseweb.harvard.edu
- “One Day I Will Make It” – A Study of Adult Student Persistence in Library Literacy Programs - PDF .
- What Every Library Should Have: Important Resources on Literacy for Libraries Compiled by NCSALL, and based on librarians’ survey responses, this list provides information on key resources for collections on adult literacy and learning. ...
- Rutgers University Graduate School of Education hosted Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education: Issues and Challenges, on October 23-24, 2003. ...
- Teachers: This Web site, which is based on NCSALL’s Adult Reading Components Study (ARCS), will help you assess learners’ reading levels and plan instruction appropriate to those levels.
- A federally funded research and development center focused solely on adult learning, the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL, pronounced nick-saul) is a partnership of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, World Education, Rutgers University, Portland State University in Oregon, and the Center for Literacy Studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. ...
- Additional funding is provided by the Wallace-Reader’s Digest Funds; the National Institute for Literacy; and the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U. ...
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- www2.wgbh.org
- Web Sites for Teachers and Adult Learners .
11. Rhode Island Adult Education Teacher Inquiry Project
- www.brown.edu
- Adult Education Teacher Inquiry Projects, .
- Adult Education Teacher Inquiry Projects were initially supported in Rhode Island through funding obtained through Section 353, Special Projects/Professional Development, of the National Literacy Act of 1991. ...
- In addition to local inquiry work, Rhode Island was represented in the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy's Practitioner Research Dissemination Network (PDRN). ...
- Adult Education Research Conference - proceedings from the 2000 conference, held in Vancouver, BC; full text papers available online. ...
- The Adult Literacy Reserach-in-Practice Pre-conference summary - July 7, 2002 University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC .
- The Adult Educator's Guide to Practitioner Research - by Suzanne Cockley ; "handbook for the novice practitioner researcher provides an overview of the practitioner research process, and discusses the strategies and methods used to conduct a qualitative inquiry. ...
- also available through the Virginia Adult Education Research Network .
- An overview of practitioner based inquiry can be found in Cassie Drennon's 1994 NCLE Digest, Adult Literacy Practitoners as Researchers In addition to providing helpful background information about inquiry, the Digest also provides a useful list of resources for further reading. ...
- Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australiain Research Constortium - ALNARC represents a national collaboration between university-based centres in each state for research into adult literacy and numeracy. ... ALNARC builds on the work of the former Adult Literacy Research Network (Language Australia) which had research nodes in the states and territories. ...
- Further details of previous adult literacy and numeracy research can be found at http://www. ...
- Adult Literacy Research: Extending our practice and building networks - Memorial University of Newfoundland, June 17 - 21, 2003. This four day Institute will bring together up to 60 people who are involved in adult literacy research in practice. ... The gathering will be of interest to new and experienced researchers in the adult literacy field, including literacy teachers, facilitators or program coordinators an university-based and independent researchers. ...
- Building Networks: An Institute on Research in Practice in Adult Literacy - report of the international gathering of literacy practitioners engaged in research in practice, St. ...
- Adult Literacy Staff Development, a 1995 ERIC Trends and Issues Alert by Susan Imel, also provides a list of resources pertinent to inquiry as well as to other forms of staff development processes. ...
12. Community Learning Resource
- www.aclearn.net
- The Community Learning Resource website supports Adult and Community Learning (ACL) and provides information about the extension of the National Learning Network (NLN) to ACL and related news, content and resources. ...
- TrEACL Deadline Approaches - Don't forget to Bid! 21st March 2005 The chance to bid for funds from the 3rd round of the Technology to Enhance Adult and Community Learning (TrEACL) scheme comes to an end on 31st March 2005. Make sure you get your bid in now to avoid missing out! E-learning: Fulfilling its potential in the ACL sector? 21st March 2005 The Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI) has published the results of its research into e-learning which looks at what works in e-learning and what does not, highlights some of the good practice going on across the sector and guides learning providers to sources of support and inspiration. ... The strategy deals with the embedding of effective ICT into learning as a whole, but also there are sections of the strategy directly relevant to Adult and Community Learning. The Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI) is making some changes to the way it carries out inspection 7th March 2005 The ALI normally inspects each provider once in a four-year cycle and many training providers are now due for their second inspection from the ALI. ...
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