Adult Education FAQS

Adult Education FAQS

Having worked in the Health sector for a decade, and more specifically in the area of adult education, I've come to realize the vast applications possible from both the health client perspective and health practitioner perspective. My particular focus has been in e-learning - transferring knowledge from the haves to the have-nots from an access medium in professional practice.

We see access to adult eduction in the health sector as seamless at times, where information is passed on both informally and formally, however there are parts of the population, (health workers) who still do not have access to the most current knowledge and application. E-learning has come a long way in my experience over the years to assist in addressing this gap.

For those working in rural and remote areas, education comes to them, versus having to leave their communities, travel far distances, incur great costs to receive information.

Of course, Adult Learners learn in various styles and e-learning may not be the ideal for some who are kineastetic, spatial, musical, or tactile learners. The hands-on application of learning, may need to be built in as part of the program transition in the community.

I therefore suggest that a blended learning approach to program planning be adopted for these learners to lessen the barriers perceived.

E-learning itself has evolved to accommodate more learning styles over the years with the incorporation of multimedia and social media sources. No longer is it a static textbook on screen with a testing component, but a more diverse display of the learning materials through text, audio, video and network interaction either in real-time or post-time. Moreover, adult learning can be a more rich experience over the internet perhaps even than in the classroom given the program planning for diverse learning, access to technology and bandwidth availability.