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Crumley, Gene; Schutz, Howard – Adult Learning, 2011
The adult learner is typically a motivated student who comes to class prepared to pay attention. They also come with cognitive and emotional stimuli not related to the course's content, which can be distracting especially at the start of a class or following a break. Ways of dealing with the problem of start-of-class attention, and for that…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Student Motivation, Perception