2016 Annual Conference

Technology increasingly influences adult learning’s rich landscape, including new tools for teaching, training, and learning. Whether interested or compelled, adult educators face challenging questions about which tools and how to use them. This session shares technology tools and implementation strategies to enhance teaching, training, and learning.

This session will benefit adult educators facing the opportunity and challenge of evaluating and implementing technology tools to enhance learning. For example, faculty will learn tools and strategies for engaging adult learners in an online environment. Practitioners will engage new options for teaching and training in the workplace. Students will explore tools to enhance their learning. Participants will leave the session with specific tools and implementation strategies.

This conference celebrates the rich landscape of adult learning, a landscape increasingly influenced by technology. Within the context of teaching, training, and learning, new technology tools, including mobile applications, offer a dizzying array of options for adult education.

Some adult educators find themselves interested in harnessing the power of technology while others feel compelled. Despite the motivation, adult educators face several challenging questions related to technology tools for teaching, training, and learning:
• What technology tools are available and most effective?
• How do technology tools complement the instructional design process?
• How do technology tools support lower- and higher-order thinking?
• How do I use and implement technology tools?

Within a Technology for Teaching and Training course, adult learners used an instructional design model and Bloom’s Taxonomy as a framework to explore technology tools. This interactive AAACE session shares and examines the resulting technology tools and implementation strategies to enhance teaching, training, and learning.