Integrating Adult Learning and Technologies for Effective Education: Strategic Approaches

✍ Scribed by Victor C. X. Wang

• Publisher: IGI Global snippet
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As adult learners and educators pioneer the use of technology in the new century, attention has been focused on developing strategic approaches to effectively integrate adult learning and technology in different learning environments.Integrating Adult Learning and Technologies for Effective Education: Strategic Approaches provides innovative instructional approaches as well as relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of adult learning and technology. This compelling body of research aids professionals in improving instructional training strategies to educate traditional and non-traditional students in todays information age.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 14
Beginnings of the History and Philosophy of Andragogy, 1833-2000......Page 16
Learner-Centered Teaching and the Use of Technology......Page 46
Effective Teaching with Technology in Adult Education......Page 63
From Pedagogy to Andragogy: Transitioning Teaching and Learning in the Information Technology Classroom......Page 78
Adult Learners and Their Development in the Information Society......Page 97
Teaching Adult Learners in Online Career and Technical Education......Page 116
Information Technology and the Learning Society: Supporting Lifelong Learning and Flexicurity Policies......Page 135
Adult Learning Principles as the Foundation for Innovative Technology Applications in Business and Higher Education Venues......Page 151
The Role of Learning Styles and Technology......Page 168
Innovative Instructional Strategies with the Use of Technology for Adult Learners......Page 185
Integrating Adult Learning and Technology for Effective Education: Strategic Approaches......Page 204
Prevalent Andragogical Instructional Preferences and Technologies......Page 221
Ultraversity-Integrating Technology in Adult Education......Page 236
Comparing the Principles of Adult Learning with Traditional Pedagogical Teaching in Relation to the Use of Technology: The Tacit Dimension in ICT-Based University Teaching......Page 253
Technological Trends in Adult Education: Past, Present and in the Future......Page 270
Compilation of References......Page 289
About the Contributors......Page 324
Index......Page 331