How The Remind App Enhances Adult Learner Engagement
As seen on http://elearningindustry.com/engage-adult-learners-remind-app Recently I stumbled across an app called Remind. According to their website it states: Remind is a communication tool that helps teachers connect instantly with students and parents. Send quick, simple messages to any device. This statement is targeted at K12, this doesn’t stop it working effectively with adult learners. After playing with […]
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 […]
The humble Post-it note in a new way
Are you an avid post-it note person? Have you ever thought about using it in a classroom or with your distance students? Distance students and post-it notes don’t quite fit into the same sentence, but they do now. Checkout the video below to see what I mean. Think about how you could use this with […]
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
Tips to motivate adult learners
Although a few years old now, these tips are still prevalent today http://elearningindustry.com/17-tips-to-motivate-adult-learners
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 […]
Adult Learning Challenges with Technology – Digital Literacy
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 Literacy. ‘Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring […]
