| CAEL's
Principles of Effectiveness for Serving Adult Learners:
Outreach
The institution conducts its outreach to adult learners by
overcoming barriers in time, place, and tradition in order
to create lifelong access to educational opportunities.
Life & Career Planning
The institution addresses adult learners’ life and
career goals before or at the onset of enrollment in order
to assess and align its capacities to help learners reach
their goals.
Financing
The institution promotes choice using an array of payment
options for adult learners in order to expand equity and financial
flexibility.
Assessment of Learning Outcomes
The institution defines and assesses the knowledge, skills
and competencies acquired by adult learners both from the
curriculum and from life / work experience in order to assign
credit and confer degrees with rigor.
Teaching-Learning Process
The institution’s faculty uses multiple methods of
instruction (including experiential and problem-based methods)
for adult learners in order to connect curricular concepts
to useful knowledge and skills.
Student Support Systems
The institution assists adult learners using comprehensive
academic and student support systems in order to enhance students’
capacities to become self-directed,
lifelong learners.
Technology
The institution uses information technology to provide relevant
and timely information and to enhance the learning experience.
Strategic Partnerships
The institution engages in strategic relationships, partnerships,
and collaborations with employers and other organizations
in order to develop and improve educational opportunities
for adult learners.
Transitions
Supporting guided pathways that lead into and from the institution's
programs and services in order to ensure that studentss' learning
will apply usefully to achieving their educational and career
goals.
Want to learn more?
Read :
Serving Adult Learners in Higher Education: Principles of
Effectiveness
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