Learning Module July

The UNO Division of Continuing Studies Transformative Teaching and Learning Initiative

July Learning Modules Summary

In July 2015, I completed the following learning modules:

Please check:	Learning Module Title / Topic
X	Adult Learners
	Student Development Theory
X	The Student in Higher Education

Name of First Module Completed:  Adult Learner

Summary/Reflection:

A high proportion of student in DCS classes are adult learners. Therefore adult learning theory since the 1980s, especially Malcom Knowles’ concept of andragogy and his six assumptions on adult learners, is relevant and is the focus of most of the module’s video. The article in the module is on the ‘implications of adult learners for online learning disease’ and argues online courses, used disproportionately by adults, should “be designed based on the needs of adult learners’ (Cercone p. 137). The author of the article reviews a number of adult learning theories, including andragogy and examines how they “may be applies to the design of online learning environments” (p. 137). The end of the article offers thirteen guidelines for teaching adult learners and with each guideline a handful of online teaching practices which are in accordance with those guidelines.    

Name of Second Module Completed:  The Student in Higher Education

Summary/Reflection:

Some interesting facts about the make-up of UNO’s student body, as well as interesting trivia important for instructors to keep in mind when it comes to their youngest students.