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Edwards, Shanda E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
For at least 50 years, prominent adult learning theorists have recommended that adult educators commit to a learner-centered teaching approach. Extensive teaching styles research has been conducted on face-to-face and online adult educators, albeit separately, to examine their commitment levels to the learner-centered style. In addition, there has…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Adult Educators, Electronic Learning, Comparative Analysis
Curran, Mary K. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The American Nurses Association advocates for nursing professional development (NPD) specialists to have an earned graduate degree, as well as educational and clinical expertise. However, many NPD specialists have limited exposure to adult learning theory (ALT), and this lack of exposure may reduce organizational knowledge transfer (KT) and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Adult Educators
Floyd, Tuboise D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This exploratory study examines the adult educational philosophies and teaching styles of workforce educators and entrepreneurship instructors within the State of Georgia. A workforce educator is an educator teaching workforce skills; an entrepreneurship instructor is an educator who teaches entrepreneurship skills. Conti's Principles of Adult…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Educational Philosophy, Reliability