Enhancing adult motivation to learn [ebook]: a comprehensive guide for teaching all adults / Raymond J. Wlodkowski, Margery B. Ginsberg.
Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn provides adult educators with the information and strategies they need to guide non-traditional students toward positive educational outcomes. Providing a clear framework, guidelines for instructional planning, real-world examples, and cutting-edge ideas, this book fills the need for intrinsically motivating instruction targeted specifically toward adults returning to school. This new fourth edition sharpens the focus on community colleges, where most first-generation college students and working adults begin their higher education, and explores the rising use of technology and alternative delivery methods including a new chapter covering online instruction.
Understanding motivation for adult learners -- Understanding how aging and culture affect motivation to learn -- Characteristics and skills of a motivating instructor : the five pillars -- What motivates adults to learn -- Encouraging motivation in online formats -- Establishing inclusion among adult learners -- Helping adults develop positive attitudes toward learning -- Enhancing meaning in learning activities -- Engendering competence among adult learners -- Building motivational strategies into instructional designs -- Epilogue : ethical considerations for an instructor of adults.
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