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How do adult learners learn?

3/18/10

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?

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