2013 Annual Conference

General Session

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

The session will explore dynamics of cohort generational differences between adult educators and learners, and how differences influence needs, learning, personality, power, and work-ethic in servicing today's returning adult learners.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

This session will examine the forces driving innovation in higher education, models of change utilized in various institutions, and leadership skills proving effective in advancing transformation.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

During this interactive session, the presenters will discuss an initiative they created to support adjunct faculty. Recently completed research and ideas for implementation at other institutions will be shared.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Session will showcase the utilization of affinity groups with intragroup dialogues, as a precursor to the intergroup dialogues, on issues of race, power, and oppression.

Shared

This session will present findings of a historical research study which explored the life of Moranda Smith, a pioneer who organized Congress of Industrial Organizations’ (CIO) unions in Winston-Salem, NC.

Roundtable

This session will focus on examples of and the value of instructional strategies faculty and librarians can use to help adult students develop information literacy and critical thinking skills

Shared

For 50 years Ebony Fashion Fair, a travelling fashion show, harnessed popular culture as a super-fueled allegory for social change redefining how black women regarded their personal and societal status

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

A narrative pilot study exploring participants’/coresearchers’ sense of self-efficacy to teach for social justice after taking an advanced graduate course in diversity, oppression, and K-12 education curriculum will be discussed.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Explore four innovative, partnership-based international degree models that address the needs of underrepresented adult learners and prepare learners to be competitive in a global market.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Developing competency-based courses for adults requires focus on multiple facets. This workshop focuses on one such model and how the developers/designers keep all the proverbial balls in the air.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This session focuses on the trend of increased interest in Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) in U. S. higher education. What are institutions doing and what are the driving forces?

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This paper reports on a survey study of the state of Adult Education Graduate Programs in North America and on faculty perspectives on programmatic issues and levels of faculty satisfaction.

Concurrent

This session will present an innovative design for active learning college classrooms enhanced by technology, the internal and external collaborations and partnerships needed for success, and student learning outcomes.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Identifying the variables, among different generations represented in adult-learners' classes, is a first-step in helping new adjunct faculty be prepared to meet the demands of their students.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

The rapid growth of distance education has resulted many instructors teaching online without an understanding of online teaching. How instructors learn to teach online is the focus of this roundtable.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This session covers how service learning was incorporated in online learning as well as faculty’s perceptions of designing and implementing service learning including student learning outcomes, encountered challenges and potentials.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This presentation concerns the transformative learning experiences of traditional age students participating in short-term study abroad programs. Emerging themes and implications for in postsecondary institutions will be discussed.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This presentation will explore the unique challenges professors of adult education face in meeting student advisement demands in an online adult education master’s degree program. An online advising tool is presented.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This session will discuss the research findings of adult education master's degree students' perception of their academic advising experience, including the important factors of influence.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Facilitators utilize elements of trust within learning environments. In this interactive session, we will share recently completed research that can help educators identify how trust occurs in learning settings.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This paper analyzes the changing trends of adult education programs around the world. It compares the philosophy of adult education programs in countries where adult education is offered.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Incivility is an issue in online instructional settings. Why is this happening? Who is doing it? How should the instructor respond? What can online instructors do to decrease incivilty?

Workshop

In this experiential session, the presenters will describe and recreate some of their collaborative inquiry processes which they undertook during their doctoral program in adult education and leadership.

Shared

Employee tuition assistance programs are a valuable benefit afforded to some employees. In this session, we will present an examination of these programs from our metropolitan area.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

The purpose of this presentation is to explain the challenges Lay Trainers (parents of children with special health care needs) needed to overcome when teaching other parents care coordination skills. The presentation will also address the opportunities that came out of this experience and implications for practice.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This roundtable addresses factors that influence mothers in academias' ability to cope with young children, dissertations and the conflict between motherhood and earning an advanced degree.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Often staff in the not-for-profit world have limited opportunities to access university based education services. This national training program, created in partnership with Temple University, provides a professional development alternative.

Shared

Preparing workforce ready millennials can be analogous to learning to ride a bike. A riding period with training wheels, then a supportive, guiding push and away they go.

Shared

This session will present data and explore how community college men construct their masculinity through playing video games.

Shared

Collaborative group projects are a hallmark with adult learners. This session will address strategies to assess group learning and design group projects based on research and practice.

Workshop

Does “way of knowing” impact how we learn and understand? This workshop examines various “ways of knowing” through the lenses of individuals who have experienced loss and disorienting dilemmas.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This session will discuss how John H. Johnson, the pioneering publishing magnate of Johnson Publishing Company, re-educated African Americans through the selfethnic liberatory nature of his magazines, EBONY and Jet.

Shared

The innovative strategies adult literacy leaders utilize to address the increasing demands for core education and literacy services in an era of scarce resources is explored.

Concurrent

This session will discuss current uses of mobile devices to support learning. We will review examples of devices and applicaitons and discuss the benefits and challenges for all involved.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

This hands-on workshop will introduce transformative learning theory and critical reflection then guide participants through a fictional story followed by an autobiographical exercise, ending with applications to real-world problems.

Shared

This session focuses on the narrative experiences of school leavers and how the intersection of social class and education affects the way in which they experience their transition to adulthood.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

We will examine some principles and practices of adult education including seminal theories and current articulations, in relation to our current context, including, e.g., MOOCs and for-profit institutions. This is an extended session from 1:30 - 3:30 on Wednesday combining sessions 3 & 4.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Participants will learn brief history of self-narration starting with Plato and ending with cognitive science, also why the process is important, and how it can be used by teachers.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Two past presidents and a technology specialist will present a rich history of AAACE and its predecessor organizations, including photos and video clips of selected leaders from the past.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Personal reflections from career professionals who self-organized as a doctoral cohort. Narratives highlight significant learning experiences, adult development considerations, and the adaptive nature of doctoral students.

Concurrent

This session covers how active learning can be designed in alignment with the characteristics of adult learners in online settings. The benefits and difficulties of applying active learning are addressed.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Australia’s vocational education system ultimately aspires to be ‘responsive’ to industry needs. Such narrowness can overlook important social and cultural dimensions of Indigenous learning. Can philanthropy help ‘disrupt’?

Shared

How do we better understand adult education within the context of globalization and non-Western and indigenous learning themes? In this session, a conceptual model is presented and applied.

Shared

This session will focus on strategies instructors can use to meet the needs of students with polytrauma and multisensory loss. These strategies are based on the first-hand experiences of an instructor and her student veteran using Web conferencing, Skype, and a course management system. This session will discuss the challenges related to multisensory loss, learner barriers to participation in the online course, and creative strategies for increasing engagement and participation.

Shared

Presenters share a research study examining the effects of subject-matter difficulty on adult learner preferences for learning environment structure.

Concurrent

This presentation will discuss challenges unemployed older adults face in seeking reemployment and effective programs at community colleges to improve their educational and employment outcomes.

Shared

Partnerships are vital to the success of community-based educational programs. We will review the importance of coalitions, describe results of focus groups and an online survey, and discuss practical implications.

Shared

American InterContinental University has begun a learning initiative that incorporates technology to create a customized learning experience. Begun in the undergraduate general education courses, the initiative is expanding into content specific areas. This engaging presentation will share the adaptive process, discuss design considerations, provide a glimpse into the technology used, and present real-time case study experiences for participant discussion.

Shared

Faculty in a qualitative study described "engagement" in program-level outcomes assessment as a learning process with catalyst, self-directed learning, and experiential learning phases. Is this a new model of learning?

Concurrent

There is a gap in the academic training needed for future global leaders. A way to close this gap is by improving
the facilitator of the instructor and expaning curriculum.

Shared

This session presents the doctoral research findings on how Singapore social sector leaders tackle complex leadership challenges marked by ambiguity and change.

Concurrent

The Blended Shore Education Framework (BSEF) offers an adult education program design approach that is grounded in action research, conducted in Kenya, Afghanistan, Thailand, and USA. This evidence-based model, developed by and with diverse stakeholders, offers a framework for education programs for disfranchised communities, without dichotomizing along values or practices. The session is an opportunity for intensive and critical questioning of our definitions of the "what and how" of our praxis in the larger context of international/intercultural perspectives.

Shared

Essentials of effective mentoring experiences and how they contribute to lifelong career development are explored from protege and mentor perspectives in both business and higher education contexts.

Shared

Creating student partners will help maintain our future professionals. This session will offer information on the supervision, development and training of graduate interns as new higher education professionals.

Shared

Rubrics are effective tools for measuring outcomes in community education. Explore how to develop a rubric in this context and what to do with the data generated by its use.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

A group from the University of Tennessee will discuss how to promote wellness practices in their areas of expertise: literacy, nursing, and teacher education; workplace learning; and IT training.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

An interactive session highlighting: Problem-Based Learning (PBL) best practices to include facilitator/instructor role, question development, relevant adult learning theories, methods, applications in academia and workplace.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Learn to create safe classrooms for ALL going beyond inclusivity to act on power dynamics. Discuss the relationship between diversity and social justice, identify own biases and develop an action plan.

Shared

This session follows two Extension education workshops for farmers. Evaluation data indicate participants gain considerable self-confidence, and develop enhanced skills because of their active involvement in these workshops.

Shared

An exploration of how the grassroots men’s sheds movement, developed and proliferated in and beyond Australia, informs men’s informal learning in community settings, particularly for older men beyond paid work.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Insights about the challenges with the non-traditional student's persistence and best practices for successful support services will be shared.

Shared

Reflecting and making meaning on the learning experiences of an international student, this exploratory study discusses how an indigenous student make cultural connections as a universal lifelong learner.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Research will be presented focusing on faculty members’ use of peer coaching, learning communities and mentoring as techniques to partner with others in order to meet their professional development objectives.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Based on the review of connected learning, the presenter will propose a networked online learning community which will connect public learning sources, personal space, group zones and the community map.

Shared

The goal of this presentation is to illustrate the usefulness of educational philosophies through a qualitative pilot study to teach combat veterans coping skills for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression.

Shared

This session focuses on the professional development outcomes of using Critical Incident Questionnaires to build trust, stimulate critical thinking, and improve facilitation in the classroom. Personal examples will be highlighted.

Shared

Education is the lifeblood of any society, and America must ensure that all of our next generation adult learners are engaged in learning and are academically prepared, especially learners of Color.

Shared

Finding connections between Adult Education and unemployment affecting about 50% of Nigerian young adults is imperative. The presentation focuses on alleviation through interaction between adult education techniques and entrepreneurship education.

Concurrent

This research explores how an in-house training program helps create social networks in order to build a collaborative organizational culture.

Shared

The study analyzed the perception of law enforcement officers regarding factors within the workplace that influence the learning transfer process in law enforcement.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Adult Education practitioners have long been called upon to engage in community development by means of education. As issues of undereducation, underemployment, poverty, and violence continue, in urban as much as rural contexts, our role is changing ... or is it? ... or ought it?

Concurrent

Contemporary constructions of femininity (in relation to skin color) among skin bleachers in Jamaica reveal a complex contestation to the traditional gender framework especially in relation to sexuality and attractiveness.

Shared

Critical thinking skills taught in classrooms support learning in the workplace. This session examines the background of critical thinking, its role in the classroom and beyond that to the workplace.

Shared

This session will discuss the reasons why student veterans are choosing to re-enlist in the service rather than complete their college degree and present solutions for increasing retention.

Shared

The presentation will track the evolution of adult education in the West-African sub-region; explore the needs that have been met in the process; outstanding challenges; and the way to go.

Concurrent

The perception of justice develops and changes with one’s developmental progression of more complex meaning making. Social justice is explored through constructive developmental theory and the self, voice, and mind.

Concurrent

The Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) provides a variety of professional development resources and services for adult educators. Participants will be introduced to the primary components and related initiatives.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

The life of any organization is tied to its ability to incorporate the next generation. This discussion will focus on how various religious groups connect with and educate young adults.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This study examined the experiences of faculty who teach accelerated courses. Participants described the isolation when teaching accelerated courses. Individual and institutional recommendations are explored.

Shared

Interviewing participants in positions of power requires additional preparation to gain access to those in elite-level positions, to minimize power issues, and to share what these participants have to say.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Social media is transforming the way adult learners communicate. There is a paucity of existing information about social media and its influence on the use of technology in higher education.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This session explores the learning pods approach, which combines social presence, online engagement, and geographically-oriented teams to meet the needs of adult learners in interdisciplinary hybrid and online programs.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This session will focus on strategies students use to stay motivated in online courses. These strategies are based on a pathway for students and include self-awareness, self-efficacy, a purpose or goal(s), the means to achieve the goal(s), and rewards after achieving the goal(s). This session will provide tips on how to incorporate the strategies into an online course design.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

The Learning Efficiency Inventory (LEI) measures learning resistance and antecedents in mandatory training, and was administered to 279 Airmen in a Professional Military Education School. Results will be presented and discussed in this session.

Shared

This research project was designed to investigate the impact of formal goal setting activities of adult non-traditional graduate students on their persistence to complete a master’s degree.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Know quality when you see it! A presentation on Quality Matters (QM), a nationally recognized, faculty-centered, peer-review process designed to certify the quality of online courses and components.

Shared

The study analyzed educators' perception of factors that influence their decision to transition from corporate society to the field of education in the Caribbean.

Shared

This session explores learning networks as tools for adaptation, resiliency, and survival of rural small business owners and their communities. Includes literature review and preliminary findings from ethnographic case study.

Shared

Findings from a qualitative study conducted on the learning needs of surgeons who provide clinical instruction to their peers in simulated surgical environments will be reported.

Shared

Assisted Living Facilities (ALF) in Florida represents a significant opportunity for adult learning experiences. This session discusses the challenges and promise of planning and evaluating meaningful programs for older adults.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

How do adult learning theories align with adult experiences of their General Education programs? Adult-learning enthusiasts will explore how general education challenges our understanding of adult learning needs.

Shared

A flipped course model moves lectures outside of the classroom, reserving class time for discussion and problem solving. This session explores the value of flipped courses for adult learning.

Shared

This session considers unique challenges to developing an instrument to assess transformative learning in light of the ongoing discussion of whether such learning is a rational, intuitive, or blended process.

Shared

This session will address methods and practices for creating successful partnerships between and among associations, industry and educational institutions. The presenters have collaborated, together and with others, on successful partnerships.

Shared

This session describes a three-tiered research effort to evaluate the Army’s Command Team Spouse Development Program. Included will be information on the program's evolution and the study’s purpose and process.

Shared

This session describes an online project involving three courses across two colleges at Florida Gulf Coast University that focused on the Earth Charter, particularly on its principles related to diversity.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Research conducted at a land grant university identified themes centered around diversity awareness perceptions among classified support staff. themes included; positional power, ageism, 'the good old boy' network and racism.

Shared

Through case studies and presenter and participant discussion, this session will explore strategies and techniques to facilitate difficult discussions about culture in contexts where the predominant adult learner is privileged.

Concurrent

Community of Peer Mentors is a new mentoring model that may further understandings of mentoring students. This session explores this and other mentoring models designed to enrich faculty/doctoral student relationships.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

What is a MOOC? How might MOOCs enhance learning opportunities for adults globally? What challenges might students, faculty and educational institutions face moving forward with MOOCs? Bring your questions and experiences!

Shared

Service learning can position participants into “helpers” and “helped.” This presentation will explain how one ESL class and community senior center partners discovered a way of serving and learning together.

Shared

Jamaican poor face low levels of literacy and learning opportunities are limited. Through the lens of the socio-music theorist, reggae music is an alternative means of knowledge.

Shared

This film presentation features the work of adults who entered their communities to embrace learning and teaching about ecojustice education through a focus on human/environmental and cultural relationships.

Shared

This session examines the development of Appalachian adult learners from the lens of transformation. Results illuminate particular areas of adult development and suggestions for adult educators to facilitate teaching.

Shared

Educators who experienced transformative learning sparked by their adult education graduate programs were interviewed 3-18 years after program completion to discover the lasting and powerful impact of their transformations.

Shared

Examination of a program that trained clinical faculty, who teach surgical residents in a lecture and lab setting, to teach using adult learning principles and a purposeful mentoring model (P.O.M.M.).

Shared

This session offers a constructive-developmental perspective on the demands adults face in a virtual learning context and considerations for cultivating virtual holding environments that support and challenge adult learners.

Shared

How does a novice adult educator move fluidly among distinct professional identities? We explore how a social worker constructs a safe learning space while bringing real-world provocations to the classroom.

Journal Meeting

Shared

The promise of a “New Model” of urban literacy education is presented based on the integrated use of technology-based concept maps, expert knowledge maps, skeleton scaffolding maps, and students’ knowledge maps.

Shared

This presentation explores the negative language often used to fuel and frame literacy educational efforts and considers how terms like "crisis" and "disease" affect partnerships between sponsors and adult learners.

Poster Session (45 minutes)

Is transformative learning for everybody? The literature suggests that Mezirow's perspective transformation theory can only be achieved by adults who have gained a certain level of cognitive maturity.

Shared

This paper explores how a collective process of enhancing faith within a house church can transcend the boundary of partnership by using cultural historical activity theory (CHAT).

Concurrent

Oral histories quilted into individual blocks provide clues of the common leadership styles of Women of Achievement. We share how studies of oral history and quilting intersect to enhance research.

Poster Session (45 minutes)

Development of dental education programs through a partnership agreement with a community college and Native American tribe will include information related to funding sources, affiliation agreements and workforce development opportunities.

Poster Session (45 minutes)

As personal relationships develop, they can sometimes evolve into partnerships. Personal relationships and the ensuing network of relationships frequently form the foundation for building collaborative partnerships.

Shared

ETS and ITP are developing a high school equivalency testing (HiSET) program. The assessment is an alternative to the GED. This session will provide information about the ETS HiSET Program.

Shared

This study aims to facilitate active conceptual discussion about the relatively novel concept of emerging adulthood in the context of globalization.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Adult learners are now connected 24/7, so let’s take advantage of all that technology and show them how to use it to get what they really want… a good job.

Shared

This study uses phenomenological and narrative analysis methods to explore the meaning of an individual's experience of becoming visually impaired and how that experience impacted his perceived identity.

Shared

A study of third and fourth year women medical students found that their gendered professional socialization shaped what they felt they could or could not do as future DOs.

Shared

Reduced sleep quality research will be discussed as it affects adult learners related to thinking and learning, health problems, psychological issues, aging, academic and work success, fitness, etc..

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Prior Learning Assessment, a hallmark of adult degree programs, requires the development and maintenance of robust, quality processes. This session showcases institutional “readiness” for determining sound and relevant PLA options.

Poster Session (45 minutes)

Findings from an empirical study of six adult learners' navigating confusions and uncertainties in their learning experiences, at a graduate level course at Harvard university.

Poster Session (45 minutes)

The study established whether participants with hearing impairment and Alzheimer's disease would recognize their hearing impairment, value hearing treatment, and improve their quality of life in 30 days.

Concurrent

This paper examined the contributions of the University of Ibadan Community Radio to the promotion of functional literacy skills. Functional literacy is defined as the skills and knowledge required of individuals to continue functioning in this ever-changing world.

Poster Session (45 minutes)

A study of university adult education program websites reveals that programs target then divide students from specific professions, a practice that may retard efforts to create a field-wide vocational identity.

Poster Session (45 minutes)

Millions of adults join annual international short-term trips expecting a new consciousness, yet research shows little long-term change. How is the personal/collective learning sustained and integrated into the sending church?

Shared

This study examines the experiences of Unitarian Universalist religious educators learning to use social media for religious education purposes. Initial findings indicate that this learning impacts overall social media use.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Online adult students' needs will be addressed and current practices examined, in order to advance student support and services in the future.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Presenters will share results of a research study regarding the use of a Wiki as a collaborative learning tool in an online graduate-level course in postsecondary education.

Poster Session (45 minutes)

Permaculture aims to rectify society's disconnect with nature by utilizing holistic ethics and principles for sustainability. Diversity in disciplines, strategies, and techniques are considered in approaching environmental issues and concerns.

Poster Session (45 minutes)

Reflective journal writing can be an effective tool for students to learn while writing. Through reflective journal writing, students can connect previous knowledge with new material to develop academic skills.

Shared

This qualitative study examines the experiences of twenty women navigating doctoral studies, motherhood and professional work.

Shared

This session presents initial findings from an institutional ethnography of an urban social justice organization that received government funding to increase digital literacy education for the city’s most vulnerable populations.

Shared

This session will discuss the importance of the research about resilience in healthy adults and how to apply the concept of resilience in adult education.

Poster Session (45 minutes)

Are we certain one course credit equals three learning hours? The session will report preliminary findings of an instrument designed to objectively quantify learning within one credit hour.

Journal Meeting

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This presentation discusses the unique needs and challenges of developing and assessing an adjunct faculty development program in the online adult degree completion program at Colorado Christian University.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Faculty will encounter students taking online courses that are unfamiliar with the learning environment. This study focuses on the effects of faculty’s confidence levels using technology on student performance.

Concurrent

Do information literacy skills transfer to self-directed learning behaviors? Do adult students possess the competencies for 21st century information literacy? These concepts were explored with adult students in higher education.

Concurrent

We will explore applications of adult learning theory and practice to help address current challenges faced by Cooperative Extension. Through shared experiences and lessons learned we will develop future possibilities.

Shared

How do welfare recipients participating in welfare-to-work programs cultivate their human capital? Welfare recipients know in order to increase their human capital, they must have access education programs.

Shared

This session will present how positive psychology may enhance self-direction in adult students through the lens of the presenters’ Self-Directed Wellness Model.

Shared

Session will explore strategies for inculcating compassionate leadership and developing advocacy skills to address human rights and social justice, based on a non-clinical medical elective implemented on the Texas/Mexico border.

Shared

This qualitative narrative study focuses on the stories and transformative learning experiences of displaced workers who participated in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program after losing their manufacturing jobs.

Shared

This session will combine current research and real world experiences to guide participants in designing, planning, and evaluating new teacher mentor programs.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

An overview of key findings from PIAAC 2012, including proficiency levels of U.S. adults as well as relationships between their skills and areas such as education, employment, demographics, and health.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

The author spent the summer of 2012 teaching graduate students and professors at Anhui University of Finance and Economics in China. This paper is an initial summary of her findings.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This session will examine the many technological, regulatory, and legal practice-related challenges for continuing legal education initiatives that are and will continue to shape CLE practice in the years ahead.

Concurrent

The purpose of this study is to understand the experience of deliberate practice in shaping professional writing performance as it explores its elements and impacts.

Concurrent

The goal of this session is to provide educators and administrators a road map for building adult career pathways that help adults move from school and work to advance their careers and attain higher degrees.

Concurrent

Development of a student identity is an important factor in students' HE experience. What role does it play with adult undergraduates? Social identity and self-categorization theories can provide insight. .

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

We should incorporate best practices from adult education into professional development. However, adult learners don't always want to be adults, so how do we adapt?

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This paper examines how working adults’ personal backgrounds including expectations, workplace contexts, and learning experiences (i.e., formal, non-formal, and informal learning) influence their participation in continuing higher education.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This multi-part study examined the ethical climate in a university division, assessed administrators’ knowledge and skills, and proposed training. Providing a foundation for determining ethical climate helps administrators target strategic action.

Shared

This presentation will highlight the adult learner experience within an adaptive learning online classroom; it will focus on features of technology, student, and faculty interaction within the system.

Shared

This concurrent session presents a program of study that is designed to assist adult learners with some college and no degree reach higher levels of baccalaureate attainment.

Journal Meeting

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This session explores the key understandings and a model of student identity and its impact upon adults returning to college for recruitment and persistence.

Shared

Sinclair's College for Lifelong Learning engages 2,500 students each term, in part through a number of community partnerships. Learn how these partnerships were developed and the benefits they bring.

Shared

Life stories increase self-awareness, fulfill the developmental need for personal legacy, and create cultural artifacts. Attendees will learn the theory behind personal biography and best practices for facilitating its creation.

Roundtable

This session identifies nursing academia as a workplace environment fraught with incivility and bullying. Ethical comportment, education, and training in prevention strategies are described as important prevention tools. Best practices such as license renewal education, psychometric measurement and Emotional Intelligence capacity improvement; as well as faculty and administration collaboration and co-creation of civility policy development are identified as mechanisms to diminished incivility in academia.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Exploring the phenomena of online learning from traditional to virtual learning environments in today’s knowledge economy. How can virtual learning bring a level of synergy and uniformity to classroom experiences?

Shared

Learnitez E-Delivery Format is presented as an effective solution and best practice that meets the needs of adult learners for challenges commonly faced by adult learners in distance education programs.

Shared

One of the most important aspects for a successful online course is organization. This session will examine why and how to use organizational techniques for both online teachers and learners.

Shared

This study examines social functions and institutional characteristics of selected social enterprises providing open learning sources in order to update our knowledge about open and distance education for adults.

Shared

Description of CSU efforts to develop several consortia based online degree completion programs for students who have stopped out as juniors or seniors at any of our 23 campuses.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This session will discuss program redesign through the implementation of a “collaboratory” in which geographically dispersed faculty convened an intensive week-long live-in workshop to redevelop program goals, competencies and courses.

Symposium

This session provides the results of a study exploring the role social networking plays in the self-directed learning of parents whose child has suffered a pediatric stroke.

Shared

Learning journals can be used to deepen student learning and build critical thinking skills. An analysis of students’ journals will highlight their value for adult educators in all content areas.

Shared

This presentation will foreground ways that an understanding of mental models can help adult learning facilitators create conditions for adaptive change, as we gradually transition to more sustainable living alternatives.

Concurrent

Faculty and administrators from Friends University will share the complexities, angst, and lessons learned while moving from a cohort model to a carousel model in their adult college programs.

Concurrent

Every future or current employee will be asked to show a sample of their work. What role can your classroom play in setting them up for success?

Shared

Older, non-traditional students sometimes encounter barriers, whether they are returning students or first-time college students. This presentation examines unique approaches so students can prepare themselves for success.

Shared

The objective of this research is to understand what attracts educators to online learning formats and the relationship between personality, teacher effectiveness, and job satisfaction.

Concurrent

How do you build community in adult education graduate programs? In this session, we propose a conceptual model and concrete program strategies supported by findings from a mixed-methods study.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This session will presentation the results of a recent qualitative study of factors effecting the academic success of adult foster children after their aging out from the foster care system.

Shared

Developing and implementing andragogy programs andragogically provides an opportunity to “think outside the box”. This effort requires congruency between talking and action. Is this possible to accomplish? Just maybe.

Shared

Little effort has been devoted to understanding the economic impact of andragogy on the economies of world nations. It is possible that andragogy may influence economies.

Shared

This session explores strategies for meeting the learning needs of full-time, non-traditional undergraduate students attending an HBCU by identifying their learning characteristics and challenges and by incorporating adult learning theories.

Shared

Adult learners desire adult learning methods Join in a discussion of how to apply andragogical methods in and out of the traditional classroom, enabling educators to satisfy adult learners.

Shared

Adult educators who promote social justice should help students recognize and resist the corporate agenda embodied in class-based “info-tainment” in programs like Swamp People and Hillbilly Blood. Come see how.

Shared

Collaboration between teacher and student is highlighted as a typical feature in adult education. Yet, rarely is mentoring built into curricula and beyond. This session chronicles the relationship built among two graduate students and their mentor over the past seven years. It invites session participants to analyze key principles of mentoring among adults in HE settings.

Shared

This session begins with the research on the nature of learning through conference presentations and a discussion on how adult educators can design meaningful learning across overlapping communities of practice.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Through a workshop at the Highlander Center, we defined leadership collectively using shared experiences from 12 participants. Let’s share the creative vision of leadership through popular education and action research.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Improve your webinars by incorporating interactive scaffolded scenarios. Your webinars will be more enjoyable for you, more informative for your students, and more cost-effective for your organization.

Symposium

DSAL is the second volume in a series of scholarly publications associated with the annual Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA, The Alliance) conference. Invited panelists will lead two rounds of interactive discussions on significant issues at the forefront of the field of adult education. Please come and join the conversation!This session will focus on discussion on topics from from last year’s conference in Las Vegas selected for the annual AHEA publication. Engage in interactive conversations where each attendee will select two topics to explore in depth. This session is from 3:30-5:45 on Thursday (session 10 & 11 combined).

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

From a developmental perspective, explore findings from presenter’s Fulbright research in Greece of citizens navigating crisis. Bring your own questions and experiences too in discussing this crucial 21st century need.

Shared

This session will examine the preferences of African American male freshmen when selecting a college for undergraduate studies. Factors influencing the student selection of undergraduate programs will be discussed.

Shared

Microaggressions have adverse effects on campus climate. With increasing online classes, microaggressions exhibit themselves in the online environment. How do we recognize and address microaggressions and create inclusive environments?

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Grant writing is a learnable skill, but motivation to learn can be derailed by at-times capricious funding decisions. This roundtable explores faculty motivation and persistence in grant writing education programs.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

.This session will present the social learning contexts of face to face learning and online leaning. There will be a critical examination and discussion of these two learning paradigms.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Multi-tasking, also called Polychronicity, refers to the tendency of some people to work on multiple activities at one time. This tendency can affect the effectiveness of individuals participating in meetings.

Concurrent

As new technology emerges, the world of education is changing at lightning speed – or is it? How well our educators are trained may determine the success of our schools.

Shared

The purpose of this action research study was to investigate the impact of mentor training on the relationships of pairs of volunteers working with youth at a leadership development seminar.

Shared

Presenters will demonstrate a conceptual curriculum model for adult education from their field experience, based on interdependence between a tridimensional matrix curriculum and its context, mediated by its delivery format.

Shared

This session presents a case study of an individual’s transformative learning experience as a fandom member from the TV show, Glee. Overall implications for adult learning and research are discussed.

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This session will discuss how transformative learning theory can foster positive social outcomes in community casework practice. Integrating critical reflection, dialogue, and critical thinking is essential to encouraging behavior change.

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Workplace bullying has become a ubiquitous condition in the U.S. Workers report verbal, physical, and emotion abuse, as well as unfair actions and practices. We have an opportunity, if not a responsibility, to educate adults as to the possible causes and deterrents of these behaviors.

Shared

A discussion of the concept of research collaboration with colleagues from other disciplines to re-invigorate teaching and research practice.

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The purpose of this session is to explore the non-formal learning, informal learning (e.g. self-directed, incidental and tacit), and transformative learning of individuals living with HIV/AIDS.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Too often virtual learning platforms are used as a one-way delivery medium, when, in fact, some of the best learning outcomes can be achieved via this environment.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Arts and technology: Where the private and public sectors meet for workforce development, youth engagement and the rebuilding of a community poised for change.

Symposium

American universities cannot assume that international students accepted to graduate school understand the concept of academic honesty in the U.S., specifically plagiarism. In this case study, Asian students speak out.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Collaborative Leadership will help participants develop and sustain partnerships because it provides a way for diverse groups to come together and address common problems in a continuous learning environment.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

The effectiveness of creativity in adult learning will be discussed. Group activities on how creative exercises can be built into the participants’ learning designs will also be included.

Symposium

This session will explore the self-directed learning resources, strategies and techniques ESL students are using to enhance their English language skills outside of the formal classroom environment.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Human Resource Development (HRD) is not thought of as the fast track to the “C” Suite. This presentation explores how educators can better position students to align HRD initiatives with organizational strategy.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This investigation examines the experiences of student-veterans attending a community college. Barrier-busting strategies and tips for transformation will be discussed.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

This workshop examines how moral-ethics, as one of Mezirow’s habits of mind, is situated in transformative learning theory. Critical reflection as a factor in moral decisions making is considered.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This roundtable will discuss the findings and experiences related to curriculum development and oversight by faculty stemming from a university-wide task force convened to redesign an existing shared governance model.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

We present the experiences of teachers in rural Ohio who organized a grassroots learning community. Participants will engage in this democratic model of teacher learning and reflective practice.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

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?

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Participation Training teaches group learning processes; it can be applied to any context defined by learners, reflecting a strong social justice framework. It honors learner experiences, fosters self-directedness and self-determination.

Workshop (60-75 minutes)

Feeling uninspired or stuck when it comes to your professional writing? Attend this session to learn creativity coaching techniques to help you overcome your creative blocks, procrastination, self-doubt, and anxiety.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

By definition, colleges and universities are places of ongoing learning. This session presents a recent empirical study investigating workplace learning and professional development among college staff (i.e., non-faculty) employees.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This study is designed to explore the effectiveness of student groups partnering with organizations to address critical issues using Action Learning, as well as understanding student learning during the process.

Shared

Educators can enhance understanding with this assessment instrument clarifying adult students’ enrollment needs when considering their students’ academic surroundings in their homes as children and today as adults.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Adult graduate students and their mentor present an education program design that pivots on implementing and assessing competencies that address social issues in disfranchised communities with residents and grassroots organizers.

Shared

Nontraditional learners are the majority of college students in Brazil and are increasing in the US. A comparison of experiences may lead both countries to educational improvements.

Shared

Music serves as a personal outlet for many African American artists who have captured their realities through song. This session uses adult learning theories to explore learning through musical voice.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This session will review the theoretical framework/rational, assessments, and curriculum utilized in creating a critical literacy program for adults in a program within a higher education institution.

Shared

Incidental learning was investigated amid established systems in a clinical work environment. Interaction, communication, and power elements arise among employees and combined with incidental learning to create unanticipated behavioral patterns.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Faculty champions share a successful collaboration’s development including forming and storming. Engagement strategies targeting non- academic college departments are articulated. Attendees’ contributions and critiques are valued

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This session examines a framework wherein essential values of literacy as capital in multiple related facets - human, social, cultural and public good are examined through transformation of African women.

Shared

Using a qualitative technique which involves interaction with two groups of adult literacy learners, this paper explores Nigerian adult learners’ perception of the relationship between literacy learning and their wellbeing

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Learn how Adler School managed the change to online and blended programs. Shared-governance, collaboration, quality control, and training were the key components in instilling success and program growth..

Shared

How does transformation occur in a highly regulated and multiply guarded jail context? In this session, I will share my findings from a study on educational program for incarcerated women.

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This qualitative study will examine reflections of adult amateur musicians after engaging in their first experiences in learning how to play jazz music.

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This presentation will present findings from a qualitative study that used a transformational learning lens to focus on exploring the meaning-making process associated with weight loss maintenance.

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This presentation will address how academic bullying impacted the career decisions and professional journeys of the gay male faculty of color who had experience of being bullied in higher education.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Presentation will discuss distance/online learning trends and demonstrate content management systems and web conferencing technologies that may support teaching of adults. Role of rapid prototyping software will also be presented.

Shared

This session will highlight how beginning medical students are taught using adult education principles to promote their effectiveness in working with adult patients.

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This session will present the findings of a recent qualitative study concerning faculty attitudes about the adoption and implementation of distance learning technologies at a traditional liberal arts oriented University.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

The session presents an interdisciplinary approach to blended learning design, resulting in a model of delivery that promotes reflection, community of practice and higher levels of learning.

Concurrent

This session shows how students with low digital literacy improve in traditional literacy, digital literacy and digital self-efficacy when instructors integrate digital and traditional literacy in a purposeful, systematic way.

Shared

Demands for accountability in healthcare education have led to the involvement of adult learning practitioners in curriculum reform, with challenges and opportunities for bridging these two worlds of practice.

Concurrent

Talent management segments the workforce on the value of specific expertise to an organization’s strategic goals. Critical HRD and emancipatory learning provide organizations alternative understandings and practices contributing to innovation.

Shared

Augsburg College moved over 300 F2F courses to a hybrid model for the Fall 2013-2014 semester to increase student engagement and enhance learning opportunities for graduate and professional courses.

Shared

This session involves a discussion of assessment within adult/higher education and will reveal some findings from a dissertation study that sought to capture how faculty members define college-level learning.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

This session will explore the current practices in the design of online courses and present empirical evidence of virtual workgroups as a strategy for increasing student presence and engagement.

Shared

We will explore courses for health professionals using staged self-directed learning methods as a way to foster life-long learning.

Shared

A descriptive study of the variables influencing the perceptions students have toward intensive, immersion-learning programs for adult learners pursuing, or intending to pursue, careers in the health and biological sciences.

Concurrent

This session explores the role of adult education in shaping the future of leadership culture in contemporary organizations through partnerships and strategies that sustain the next generation of women leaders.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Situational pedagogy is the ability to facilitate learning across diverse situations and audiences. This discussion explores how university professors adapt their instructional practices to meet the expectations of seasoned learners.

Shared

By exploring the words students mobilize to identify what they have done and what they know, this presentation investigates the ways Piror Learning Assessment students potentially re-envision themselves as knowers.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

The communicative language approach to teaching can be used effectively for teaching foreign languages to adult learners. This session will define the approach and discuss how to effectively use it.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This session will explore the preliminary findings of a study of the lived experience of adult female undergraduates who live on campus including themes of resilience, self-efficacy, identity and motivation.

Concurrent

Social media communication builds partnerships, provides knowledge and enhances participation in society. This session will include practical examples and lesson plans to explore this topic with adult ESL students.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

The needs of nontraditional students are varied and expansive. This work reviews literature on one segment–motherhood and adult higher education–and provides insights for program planners, advisors, and faculty.

Shared

The founding representatives of "Choctaw U" explain the process of academic collaboration for adult learning between the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

Shared

This session explores how Confucius-influenced East Asian students learn to adapt independent critical thinking and how these students reconcile the countervailing Western pedagogy in their doctoral studies at U.S. universities.

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

AAACE is revitalizing the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and seeking leaders and active members. Come be part of the conversation, gain leadership credentials, and help shape our professional future.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

To significantly impact educator preparation programs, we must understand the needs of those we serve. By asking current practitioners critical questions we get relevant answers that foster continuous program improvement.

Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)

Now that HIV/AIDS is considered a chronic illness in the United States, how do gay male long-term survivors (20+ years) continue to integrate HIV/AIDS identity into their lives?

Concurrent

Presenter will discuss teaching environmental communication to college students in a compressed, collaborative format. Challenges, strengths, and opportunities for improvement and application will be considered.

Journal Meeting