List some aspects of globalization

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“We have moved from connected to hyperconnected” ~ Friedman

• increased outsourcing and manufacturing to low-income, low-wage countries
• “goods and services and information and ideas are brokered around the world”
• “The world is becoming one big shopping mall”

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• “The rise of corporate social responsibility” and movements towards sustainability are linked to globalization
• “students are consuumers who shop the world for tutors”
• “institutions of higher education become commerician enterprises in pursuit of market and market-like activities”

List some aspects of the knowledge society

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• “companies moving to workers, workers moving to companies”
• “From brain drain to brain circulation”
• “competancies: deep understanding, flexibility, and capacity to make creative connections”
• “prosperity of individuals and companies depends on human and intellectual capital”

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• “Women makeup 70% of the 1.3 billion absolutely poor, more than half the population over 15 are illiterate”
• “can’t learn what you need to know for your career in the first 2 or 3 decades”
• “Most professional preparation is outdated before one gets situated in career”
• “Students should be prepared for lifelong learning for jobs that do not even exist yet”

Give some examples of how modern day technology influence learning?

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“teachers in california experimenting with flipped classrooms, where students watch videos then demonstrate knowledge” “Wider access to knowledge through internet” “Moocs positively impact national rate of change of intellectual human capital”

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“Friedman says MOOCS will transform higher-ed into credential system, where students prove they did the work” “informal learning possible adults tap exploding learning resources” “in 2014, some populations still missing participation in communications revolution”

List some aspects of the impacts of demographics on education

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“equalizing opportunities in education most important overcoming social injustice, strengthening economic growth” “global illiteracy plagues world especially among women” “Older people outnumber children for the first time in history”

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“need for better data on education providers, trainers, and training delivery” “diversity in social mobility hourglass among immigrants creates challenges for educational planning” “diversity presents challenges aligning learning needs and learning styles across demogaphics”

Describe some characteristics of the quintessential adult learner

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“Adults are those whose age, social roles, or self-perception, define them as adults” “The resource of highest value in adult education is the learner’s experience” [lindman] “adult development more focused on social roles and psychosocial tasks (establish intimacy or generativity)” [the quality of being able to produce or create something new, often involving nurturing and guiding the next generation.]

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“adult learners mostly motivated by wanting to improve their position in life”

Describe participation in adult learning activities [2009 UNESCO report]

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nordic > 50% anglo saxon 35% - 50% northern european 20% - 35% southern europe < 20%

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startling high numbers [estimated 90 million, paulston & boeke, 2006] “2009 UNESCO global report, 18% adulst over 25 not completed primary school”

List common adult participation programs

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ESL: english second language ABE: adult basic education GED: general education development CPE: continuing professional education

Profile average adult learner

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• just as often woman as man
• under 40
• completed highschool
• employed above average income

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• white collar
• married, kids, suburban

List some settings where learning occurs

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formal: sponsored by educational institutions nonformal: organized by institutions, agencies, and community groups [secondary mission] informal: embedded in everyday life

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• traditional students 15%, remainder include adult learners, employees, low-income students, student parents
• 70% of learning takes place in the work place
• self-directed learning explosion
• tacit knowledge [implicit howto navigate knowledge - high-society]

what are the components of informal learning?

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self-directed [howto] incidental [occupational, read map to get to office] tacit [interpersonal, implicit social experience] integrative [nonconscious learning, awake in the night with the solution]

What is the learning society?

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place-bound application of the concept of lifelong learning, possibly nation or community wide initiative overarching concept to guide policy in some countrys

Talk again about the knowledge society

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wherein knowledge and education are commodities of value has eclipsed the industrial society where labour and machines were of greatest value

Why is the adult learner different from the child learner?

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Due to position and social context, the adult learner has qualitatively different learning needs and interests from children