By Phil Hill. While at SXSWedu, I was able to visit Austin Community College’s ACCelerator lab, which got a fair bit of publicity over the past month. While the centerpiece of ACCelerator usage is for developental math, the 600+ workstation facility spread over 32,000 square feet also supports Tutoring in a variety of subjects, First year experience, Group advising, Academic Coaching, Adult Education, Continuing Education, College readiness assessment preparation, and Student skills workshops. More...
How is digital learning impacting adult learner environments?
The digital domain is increasingly becoming used in learning provision. The emergence of MOOCs is a global phenomenon, online learning management systems are used in classroom settings, and blended forms of learning are practiced in work-based learning.
Not only is the digital domain being used more and more in intended learning trajectories, people use the digital domain as an enormous learning resource as well. Everybody searches online to learn how to fix a tyre, find pancake recipes, learn about a country he or she wishes to visit, learn about Malcolm Knowles or find information on the history of the European Union (ok, not everybody does this). More...