Teaching Adults Online

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Overview

During the summer of 2007, eleven students from the department of Educational Technology at Boise State University took the plunge and dove into the study of andragogy. The objective was to attempt to discover how and what the best procedures are to teach adults in an online environment in the 21st century. During the semester, emerging technologies were reviewed, studied and evaluated with the purpose of discovering how to best merge and blend these methods into traditional instruction; and bring these methods closer to the people whose careers can (and do) often change with new technology requirements. Research has shown that some adults will change their careers as many as 6-7 times during their lifetimes. What does this mean to us as educators, our educational system, and the way we teach today?

Here are some of the insights that we the class of summer 2007 discovered and discussed based on our readings and assignments that were presented.

We wish the best to each other and to the future classes who choose to teach and study andragogy in this course. There is much to come in the future of teaching, learning and the use of technology in education. We hope to continue to work united to discover the best practices and most innovative ways of teaching students of all ages.

Discoveries and Discussion

The following links will lead you to the discussion topics:

EdTech 582 Final Project Rubric - The criteria from which this project was graded.

Contributors to This Project:

Students: Bou Harrold; C. (Brad) Eastridge; Cheryl Comstock; Christine Seideman; Debra Shein; Doug Helvey; Douglas Miedel; Matthew Geddes; Paul Ally; Robert Herrmann; Stephen Seal.

Faculty: Ann Randall