Exploring the Changing Face of Higher Education: Instructional Technologies, Distance Education & Adult Learners

New Search

Print Abstract

E-mail Abstract

Full Text

Save to My Collections

Export Citation

Hollingsworth, C.D. (2000). Exploring the Changing Face of Higher Education: Instructional Technologies, Distance Education & Adult Learners. In Proceedings of WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (pp. 252-256). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/6369.

• Share:
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Conference Information

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet (WEBNET) 2000
San Antonio, Texas
2000
AACE

More Information on WEBNET
Table of Contents

Author

Cynthia D. Hollingsworth, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA

Abstract

Increasingly, college students are intrinsically motivated, non-traditional, adult learners. Learning must fit into already full lives. The traditional "sit-in-a-classroom-three-times-a-week-for-a- 50-minute-lecture" does not generally meet these learners' needs. Celli Sarasin, discussing Zemke (1995), states that "facilitation has proven to be more effective than lecturing" (1998) and identifies active learning strategies that may be used to assist students in constructing knowledge. Increasingly varied and complex instructional technologies are available to assist in creating knowledge or in facilitating learning. These tools may enhance instruction or may detract from it. They may be the end or may be the means to reach the end. Tools may broaden educational possibilities or may frustratingly close the door to possibilities. This paper explores how - and whether - higher education is changing to meet the learning needs of adult learners, and the role that instructional technologies and distance education play in learning for this population.

Keywords

• Adults
• Distance Education
• Educational Technology

Also Read

• Perspectives on Blended Learning in Higher Education
• Faculty Best Practices Using Blended Learning in E-Learning and Face-to-Face Instruction
• Nontraditional Student Participation in Distance Education: Applying Principles of Andragogy and Constructivism
• Maximizing Web accessibility through students centered user interface design.
• Online Education for Adults: An Andragogic Approach
• Strategies for Engaging the Adult Learner in Web-Based Interactive, Active Learning
• The Influence of Reading and Memory Skills on Older Adults’ Information Search and Learning in Educational Hypermedia
• Online Higher and Adult Education in an Asynchronous Environment
• Improving Student Satisfaction in Online Adult Education
• Modeling technology integration courses: Current Practice & Recommended Directions

Tags