Making Learning Fun

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Making Learning Fun
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How adults learn

• What Makes Us an Adult?
• - This is an important defining aspect that
  impacts upon education for adults.
• - Adult education therefore begins when
  existing distinct provision of technical and
  higher education ceases. Some educational
  institutions define between ordinary and mature
  students, using the age of 25 as a benchmark.
• Therefore, methods of teaching adults as opposed
  to young people centre on presumed differences
  of maturity, experience and needs.

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Pedagogy

• Pedagogy This is the term that defines the
  teaching of children. This assigns full
  responsibility to the teacher/educational
  facility. The learner is usually passive

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Andragogy

• Andragogy This is the term that defines the
  teaching of adults. The term was first posited
  by Malcolm Knowles in 1978, under the influence
  of John Dewey (not Johnnie Walker).

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Making Learning Fun

• Tough (1968( and Houle (1980) suggest that adults
  engage in further education for one of three
  reasons, viz
• Goal orientation
• Activity orientation
• Learning orientation

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Methods of Adult Learning

• Self directed and self paced learning and
  training are the most appropriate delivery
  methods for adults.
• Student centred group methods are the most
  effective for the teaching of adults.

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Different Learning Styles

• Major test used in industry to assess personality
  is the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
• The test labels people as either
• extroverted or introverted (E/I)
• sensing or intuitive (S/N),
• thinking or feeling (T/F) and perceiving or
  judging

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Different Learning Styles

• Kolb (1984) developed a four fold category of
  learning styles
• Concrete Experience
• Reflective Observation
• Abstract Conceptualization
• Active Experimentation

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Resources

• RESOURCES
• www.ala.asn.au
• Making Learning Fun by John Sleigh also look at
  his website
• www.johnsleigh.com.au
• The Adult Learner At Work by Robert Burns
• www.humanmetics.com (on personality testing)
• www.typelogic.com (for an analysis on your test
  results