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An Adult Learner In Graduate School
By Rodger Bailey
There is a distinct difference between an adult learner and a child learner. The schools our children attend are designed to deliver a set of basic structured, sequenced lessons to passive students. Adult learners know what they want to learn and are self-directed and self-paced. The best distance learning graduate schools are designed around the adult learner model. Students in these schools are experienced and they seek knowledge and skills to improve their lives. They want a curriculum which is flexible to their needs and challenges them to extend their study beyond the lesson plans. Some of these kinds of graduate programs offer everything online. Coursework in provided online and assignments are completed online. Direct communication with faculty takes place by phone, skype, or chat. Some of these programs provide the coursework during on-campus residencies. These are intensive weeks at the campus facility where students and professors interact in classroom settings. Assignments are done at home on the schedule that fits for the student. And, some programs are a hybrid form of both, where online coursework is used for some aspects of the program and on-campus residency is required for other aspects. The beauty of these kinds of programs is that mature graduate students can continue their home and work life while attending graduate school. Distance learning doctoral programs offer an adult the ability to achieve the highest level of education while continuing the life they have created for themselves in their family and their career.
Rodger Bailey, MS and his wife, Isabel, have started a distance learning doctoral program at a small christian university in Tennessee. They are in their mid-60s and chose a degree program which focuses on intensive academic research for social change.
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Good information once again Rodger. I'm still struggling
with the ways of the internet. At 74 it is uphill,but I am determined to learn.
Keep up the intel.
Frederick
Excellent article, Rodger , explaining the differences between adult and child learning. There will be a good number here who will appreciate the differences.
Good post Rodger. I did my postgraduate study when I was in early middle age and I was so much more motivated then than I was as an undergraduate.
Something I have questioned all my life is the way that schools present material to children as passive learners. Children are very self directed and intelligent. Alternative schools operating on more of a college-like model have shown incredible results in terms of how much children learn in better conditions.
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