MED in Adult Education Course Descriptions

ED 512: Workforce Training 3 hrs.

This course explores the philosophy of workforce development as a means to meet current and future workforce preparedness of adults. This course will explore current issues and trends in workforce development as it relates to adult education and training. Some topics include: learning organizations, adult basic education, executive education, workplace learning, career development, and technology as a learning delivery tool.

Course Objectives: Upon the completion of this course learners will be able to:

• Describe current workforce trends
• Locate career development resources
• Define a learning organization
• Apply workforce issues to adult education and training environments
• Describe workforce trends from a global perspective.

ED 525: Adult Education Facilitation Strategies 3 hrs.

This course provides facilitators in an adult education or training environment with a variety of facilitation strategies to enhance the delivery of course content and to create a healthy learning environment. Development of facilitation strategies to various learning styles and multiple intelligences will also be explored. Specific techniques such as role playing, ice breakers, brainstorming, use of technology, will be covered.

Course Objectives: Upon the completion of this course learners will be able to:

• Demonstrate various facilitation strategies
• Apply facilitation strategies to meet various learning styles
• Apply technology as a delivery strategy
• Present a short learning module using various facilitation strategies.

ED 538: Adult Development 3 hrs.

The course will provide learners with information addressing development across adulthood, from 18 and older, and examine the ways in which adults change or develop in both shared and individual ways. The course examines adult behavior, life styles, crises in adult development, and cognitive, personality, and intellectual changes with aging. This knowledge base will assist learners in their reflections regarding growth and development that occurs during their own adulthood, as well as changes that occur in the lives of their adult learners.

Course Objectives: Upon the completion of this course learners will be able to:

• 1. Describe adult development from the following perspectives;
  • Biological
  • Psychological
  • Sociological
  • Cognitive
  • Moral
  • Spiritual
  • Gender differences
• Describe memory and retention as adults age
• Describe the learning needs of older adults
• Examine the sociological impact of adult development in the current contexts of the 21st century
• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of life span and aging issues as they relate to one's personal and professional life
• Exhibit an understanding of current theory, research, and practice as it relates to adults' lives

ED 542: Program and Instructional Design 3 hrs.

This course will provide the learner with various program and course development models and apply those concepts to develop programs and courses, from needs assessment to evaluation, for adult learners in education and training environments. A final project is required at the completion of the course.

Course Objectives: Upon the completion of this course learners will be able to:

• Identify the various instructional design models
• Apply the Instructional Design Process or other model to develop a program or course;
• Develop and conduct a needs assessment
• Design an evaluation plan for a program or course
• Develop a program or course based on course models.

ED 554: Adult Education Learning Theory 3 hrs.

This course will provide advanced study of adult learning, theory, philosophical foundations of adult education, and research relating to specific issues and approaches for facilitating adult education. In addition, the course will examine the role and characteristics of the adult learner in the 21st century.

Course Objectives: Upon the completion of this course learners will be able to:

• Describe the characteristics of adult learners
• Critically analyze emerging research on adult learning theory.
• Examine the major philosophical foundations of adult learning
• Describe the major adult learning theory
• Describe theories of motivation
• Apply adult learning theories and research to contextual situations
• Gain an understanding of philosophical foundations of adult education.
• Explore adult learning theory from a global perspective

ED 563: Leadership & Policy in Adult Education 3 hrs.

This course will examine individual and professional leadership development for administrators of adult education and training programs. Ethical and policy implications from federal and local decisions on leadership and management of programs will also be explored.

Course Objectives: Upon the completion of this course learners will be able to:

• Identify a personal leadership style
• Develop a personal leadership improvement plan
• Define ethics and policy as it relates to adult education and training
• Identify the key stakeholders in an organization
• Conduct an environmental scan to determine policy development
• Identify local and national officials which affect ones program

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College of Graduate and Professional Studies, Graduate Admissions
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E-mail: betty.deck@park.edu
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