1. MOTIVATINGAdult Learners
Daniel Bivins
Principle of Distance Education
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EDUC 8842
Fall 2009
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2. Overview
In this program Daniel Bivins discuss
the challenges facing Adult Education
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3. Overview
This Video Presentation will provide the basic framework for evaluating and validating the objectives that are needed to further the studies in Adult Educational Programs
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Section 1 Discussion.
Examine which are the Main problemof adult learners.
There is a significant amount of adult learners withdrawing within the first few weeks of the courses due to the online educators failure to create social construction of knowledge that promotes initiative as well as creativity
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Main Problem:

Financial

6. Adult Abuse 7. Family 8. Motivation Daniel Bivins
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Critical Reason
Educators Failed

To promote learning

10. To understand the principal of learning and how student learn

To create social construction of knowledge

that promotes initiative as well as creativity

At most fail to establish a high level trust

within the learning environment.
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11. Critical Elements of Educator Learning
(1)Motivation
(2)Reinforcement
(3)Retention
(4)Transference
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Motivation:
Educators must motivatethe learners during the beginning of the course because it establishes a friendly open learning environment that shows the learners that they can learn, but most of all, it shows them that the educator will help them learn
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Motivation:

Consequently, the educator must set an appropriate learning level to meet the objective of the course as well as learn the individuals learning style, which would promote the educator to teach learners to use cognitive skills, and strategies that will continue their interest in learning.

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What is Cognitive ?

The process of thought to knowing.

15. The learning practice of using memory, motivation, and thinking . 16. The amount learned depends on the processing capacity of the learner.Daniel Bivins
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Reinforcement
Educators must learn to reinforce their learning skills by using their best teaching methods.In a recent article Development of a User-Friendly Instrument for Identifying the Learning Strategy Preferences of Adults by Conti (2009), he points out that to reinforce a learners skill, the educator must identify the adult preferences in their learning needs.
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Reinforcement
This can be accomplished by using the method known as ATLAS, which is a learning method that is used to quickly identify the learning strategy preferences of adults.ALTLAS can be used for either self-assessment or, an educator can use it in order to quickly identify how an individual learner approaches learning.Researchers have found that educators are delivering positive reinforcement in their role of teaching. Results show that the proposed approach increases the motivation of the adult's task familiarity.
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19. Adult Learners
Retention
Educators must teach learners to retain information needed to achieve higher education. According to Loyens (2009) British Journal of Educational Psychology, a team of researchers examined their conception of constructive learning in order to identify the most effective learning approach to maintain learnerinterests in learning.
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What is Constructive learning?

Is known as Constructivism

21. To generate knowledge and meaning fromyour own experience 22. Learners interpret the information and the world according to their personal knowledge Daniel Bivins
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Transference
Educators must teach adult learners to transfer experience and knowledge to new learning skills.
In a recent article written by Hill (2009), the author explores the impact of connectitive as a learning theory, which provides insight into learning skills and tasks needed to flourish in this digital age.
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24. Adult Learners
What is Connectivism ?
Is a Learning theory for the digital age.
What does this mean?
Basically, learners must have the ability to
recognize what knowledge is and what is no
longer valid so they can acquire newinformation
into new learning knowledge.
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Connectivism
I believe that adults who learn to become positive transferors will be able to associate new information with something that they already know and at most, the degree of motivation in learners ability to pursue higher education will accelerate.

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Conclusion
However, adults have special needs and their educators must actively involve them to participate in the learning process and serve as facilitators for them.Consequently, regardless of finding adult learners with a low degree of interactivity and lacking in the application and integration of content, the learner must be motivationally challenged and educators must show learners how the education program will help them reach their goals.Finally, teaching practices in motivation, reinforcement, retention, transference and providing the learner with authentic and interactive learning activities such as animations and simulations, and a positive learning climate, these are the best teaching practices that will encourage adult learners to become highly motivated learners.

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