Thursday, May 24, 2007

Computer Technology and Adult Learners

My proposed topic for my paper is... my title.

I had some concern that this might not be broad enough because as a student of Adult Education, I have noticed that the sources provided by Auburn at the Library are kind of outdated. I would have to go out of my way to get some solid book sources, which is fine, but it is something that I thought about.

I wanted to take the course of talking about the problems that adult learners face. A lot of them look at computer technology as being a disadvantage and it really discourages them from wanting to go back to school because they feel as though they are out of the technological loop.

I could propose some solutions, maybe get some insight from adult learners that are facing some problems and maybe I could find some consistencies between the research and what I hear from the learners themselves. Perhaps that could help narrow the topic down some.

:)

Also, I found these:
http://www-distance.syr.edu/ndacelech4.html
http://lonniechu.com/deoutline.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/246569/teaching_computers_to_adult_learners.html

Kinda makes me want to go onto the route of Distance Education for Adult Learners. Thoughts?

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