Educating Adults Certificate

In this course, you will be introduced to major components involved in designing educational offerings for adult learners in various face-to-face settings. You will develop (or revise) a design plan for an educational offering appropriate to your selected adult clientele. You will learn to articulate learning outcomes around which to build your design plan (backward design) and apply theories, concepts, best practices and principles of adult learning while making design decisions. The design principles addressed in this course are also relevant to on-line environments.

In this course, you will develop and hone your skills to facilitate adult learning in a variety of settings. You will learn about concepts that inform learner-centered methods and techniques of facilitating learning. Throughout the course, you will apply various methods and techniques in a variety of settings and reflect on how these methods influence learning. The repertoire of skills you will develop as facilitators of learning may be applied immediately. The concepts, methods, and techniques covered in this course are also relevant to on-line learning.

In this course, you will learn and apply various approaches for assessing learning outcomes of adult students in ways that also contribute to the learning process. The assessment of adult learning entails examining the actual outcomes of learning activities in relation to intended outcomes in order to make determinations about, and continually improve, both student learning and facilitator instructional practices. You will address these components as you develop an assessment plan relevant to your practice setting and gain the skills required to design assessment tools. Throughout the course, you will explore the assessment as a creative, critical, rigorous and reflective process.