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Choosing Methods for Adult Learners

When you are asked to give a presentation for a group of adults, knowing what you want to teach the group is just one piece of the puzzle. Adults learn differently than children and knowing a little bit about how adults like to learn can help you put together instruction that will be appealing and effective. Walking away at the end feeling like you have reached your audience and made an impact is a good feeling. Choosing Methods for Adult Learners is a wiki module designed to help you put together effective and appealing instruction for adult learners.

Lesson Goal

This lesson is designed to help subject matter experts responsible for creating classroom instruction use methods that address the needs of adult learners. The resulting instruction will create a relevant, practical, engaging, supportive, and socially interactive learning experience for adult learners.

Key Learning Objectives

At the completion of this Wikiversity module you will:

Choose instructional methods that address the needs of adult learners.
Identify four characteristics of adult learners.
Identify how learning methods address the needs of adult learners.
Acknowledge the benefit of using methods effective for engaging adult learners.

Meet Tammy

Tammy is an account manager for a consulting firm in Indiana. Like many of her colleagues, Tammy sits in a cubicle day-in and day-out. In her free time Tammy enjoys doing yoga as a stress reliever. In a recent staff meeting Tammy’s supervisor asked her to present some desktop yoga exercises to her unit to promote stress management in the office. Tammy is passionate about yoga and is eager to share the benefits she enjoys from it. However, Tammy has never taught a class before and is not sure where to begin.

If you are like Tammy, you can benefit from this module on Choosing Methods for Adult Learners.

Click Adult Learner Characteristics to begin.