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Can you imagine if you had to go one day without checking your Facebook updates or tweeting? What about one week?

Eric Darr, the provost at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, came up with an experiment designed to examine how we all live with social media by studying how we live without it! And he is using his faculty, staff and student body at Harrisburg for the research.

“… It is about pausing to evaluate the extent to which social media are woven into the professional and personal lives of the people on the Harrisburg campus, and contemplating what has been gained and what has been sacrificed,” Darr said in an interview with Inside Higher Ed.

What would you do without social media? How would your life change? Would it be more complicated?

Share your thoughts with us!

It’s no secret that adults learn differently than traditionally aged college students.

And with the proliferation of adult learner programs, colleges are finding more and more ways to teach adult learners how they need to be taught.

How, exactly, do adult learners learn? See below from RIT.

Adult learners….
* Seek educational solutions to where they are compared to where they want to be in life
* Are results-oriented
* Have specific results in mind for education
* Are self-directed
* Accept responsibility for their own learning
* Bring more, and expect to bring more, to a learning situation because of their wider experience
* Require learning “to make sense.” They will not perform a learning activity just because the instructor said to do it

How does RIT’s findings match with your own experiences?