The seven year education itch Adult Learning in Vocational Training now FREE
The seven year education itch – Adult Learning in Vocational Training is now making its way around the globe and is FREE worldwide! A simple Google search pulls back all the sites you can get the ebook from including Amazon, SmashWords, iBooks, Kobo plus heaps more. ISBN: 9781370951222
Sometimes, it’s not the content..it’s the delivery
Over the weekend I attended a BBQ with my family and a few other families. It was a friendly environment, lots of food, drink and laughter. I want to share with you a short conversation I had. The usual topic of ‘what do you do for a living’ came up, and I struck up […]
The Seven Year Education Itch – Adult Learning in Vocational Training – my digital journey so far
Available to download in: PDF iBook ePub Now available on Amazon As I approach seven years in the vocational education industry, I realised I’ve covered a fair bit of ground in the eLearning space. I wanted to share with others the experiences that I’ve had and lessons I’ve learnt. Understand what I’ve discovered about adult learners […]
The Modern Learner
I came across this inforgraph recently and wanted to share as it covers well what today’s learners look like. Meet the Modern Learner – source http://vignetteagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/meet_the_modern_learner.jpg
5 Tips To Bridge The Technology Gap Faced By Adult Learners
As seen on http://elearningindustry.com/5-tips-bridge-technology-gap-faced-adult-learners When an adult makes a conscious decision to start studying again, especially after a reasonable time away from learning, chances are they are going to run into some technology challenges they’d never encountered before. Here is how to bridge the technology gap faced by your adult learners. This article follows on from […]
Technology Challenges Faced By Adult Learners
As seen on Elearning Industry and included in The seven year education itch and Discovering Educational Technology for Adult Learners Adult learners acquire their knowledge very differently to children. They are much more results driven, goal oriented, and practical, as well as being very self-directed. When it comes to technology, we can’t simply assume that all adult […]
EdPuzzle – Edit, crop, record audio and add questions to just about any video online and allow students to participate in virtual classrooms [UPDATE].
EdPuzzle is a website site that lets you take just about any video off the web, edit it down to the portions you want, add audio notes and questions for students, and create virtual classrooms where you can monitor individual student work. There is also an app that supports students to access the virtual classrooms […]
Look at how people use technology not at technology people use
I came across this on twitter and thought it was prevalent to the challenges faced by Adult learners. Once we know how people (in this case adults) use the technology, we can build better tools to overcome the challenges faced by adult learners. Original tweet https://twitter.com/briansolis/status/684501828113846272
Adult Learning Challenges with Technology – Digital Fear
When we talk about the challenges we face with Adult Learners, there are several area’s that we can focus on. I’ve summed these up as Digital blefs. This post will look at the issue, Digital Fear. Fear can be defined as: ‘a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.’ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fear There is a genuine fear of some learners […]
Adult Learning Challenges with Technology – Digital Experience
When we talk about the challenges we face with Adult Learners, there are several area’s that we can focus on. I’ve summed these up as Digital blefs. This post will look at the issue, Digital Experience. The word ‘Experience’ can have many different meanings, for adult learners we can say that Experience could be defined as […]
