Adult Education Website Bibliography

Developed by Christine Tillman

The bibliography listed provides information on Internet sites that can be valuable resources for adult educators.

The Premier Education Resource for Working Professionals

This site provides a search tool to locate adult educational opportunities in your area. There are also links to many interesting articles.

This site has links to distance education programs, what distance education is, and the different mediums used in distance learning.

This site is a great resource for adult educators. There are links to many other site that may be of interest to educators.

This site highlights the current issue of the newsletter & provides information on how to submit articles for the journal as well as subscription information.

This site gives a description of this electronic journal and how to subscribe.

Adult Education Listserve – this site provides adult educators an opportunity to communicate on a wide variety of related topics.

This site provided information about the "father" of adult education and andragogy.

This site provides information related to adult learners. The assumptions are based on the theories of andragogy and social learning.

This site is a Web-based resource for the literacy community. The purpose of the site is to provide an on-line interactive structure for increasing communication and sharing information about adult literacy.

This site is a valuable research tool that includes a virtual library and search opportunites in the ERIC database.

http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed299456.html

This site lists an overview of trainer functions. Some of the trainer tasks are needs assessment, curriculum design, analysis of methods and materials, and evaluation.

This site lists an overview of trainer functions. Some of the trainer tasks are needs assessment, curriculum design, analysis of methods and materials, and evaluation.

 

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rmartin/Net-learning/1-warmup.htm

This site is an interactive article which lists links to other sites to learn "how to learn" using the Internet. The article list the different features of the Internet such as :search engines, games, along with highlights of other interactive educational sites.

 

http://www.colosys.net/click/alis/alis~home.html

Sponsored by the Colorado Literacy Internet Collaboration of Knowledge

This site features downloads to test adult learners for placement provided by the Colorado Department of Education

 

http://www.mrbcomm.com/article_mktgnews.html

This article targets more of a marketing strategy towards educational institutions but it gives a close description towards what a large population of adults are looking in pursuing higher education.

 

http://www.oise.on.ca/~dneundorf/adult.html

This site provides a list of web resources for adults aong with the ability to e-mail the author for more information.

http://www.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Documents/AdultLearning.html

This article is taken from International Encyclopedia of Education and was written by Stephen Brookfield. The article discusses research topics such as the following: Self-directed learning, critical reflection, and experiential learning. Brookfield also goes on to include emerging trends like cross-cultural learning. 

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