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What Isn't Counted Doesn't Count: Conferences -- The Largest Adult Ed Program We Seldom Study
Type of Presentation
Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
Adult educators have a minor impact on continuing professional education conference learning and quality. If 5M+ adults participate annually, why are adult educators not front and center? Can AAACE help?
Target Audience
AAACE leadership, Continuing Professional Educators, anyone interested in exploring how AAACE could become THE place where CPE gets counted, and thus counts. Anyone interested in the study of Continuing Professional Education Conferences or working in this field with vast opportunity for Adult Educators.
Learning Outcomes
AAACE has been and continues to be a leader in the field of Adult Education. At the end of this session participants will be able to:
1. Describe the nature of the problem whereby adult educators are generally not involved in this huge adult education endeavor
2. Discuss approaches that could help insert good adult education practice into many more CPE conferences
3. Begin to think about how AAACE might begin to count what is currently not counted (and thus make it a field for study and practice improvement)
4. Understand the job opportunities for adult education graduates that exist in this field.
Session Description
Census data from 2004 estimates that there were roughly 25,000 associations similar to AAACE where one of the goals is likely the continuing Professional Education (CPE) of Members. If each of these associations has a conference of at least 200 attendees annually, that makes 5M adults educated annually. This is a low estimate of impact. AAACE could be the place where we begin to address this rather overlooked area of adult education, where adult education professionals could influence learning. Picture this: a room full of physician administrators, a full afternoon of instruction by a CPA where questions were held in contempt as a non-stop lecture was made based on black PowerPoint slides with yellow text! Adult educators could have a tremendous impact in a field where there are good jobs and good work to do. Why are so few adult educators employed in this arena?
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Primary Presenter
Virginia Phillips, EDD, CMM, Arden Solutions
Work Title
President/Owner