THIRTY-FIVE! This week we are celebrating the 35th anniversary of the PLA program at Marylhurst. In 1976, the first Marylhurst student was awarded college credit for learning he obtained from his work and life experience, and ever since then, the program has been a key to acknowledging the learning our adult students bring with them. [...]
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Thirty-Five!
Posted in Adult Learners, PLA, tagged adultlearners, Marylhurst, PLA on May 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The 3 R’s Revised: Relationship, Relevancy, and Rigor
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, PLA, Teaching, tagged adultlearners, Learning, PLA, Teaching on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Christine Caton, our relatively new PLA faculty member, wrote this great essay in the latest version of Marylhurst’s Adult Learning Newsletter. As she reflects on her own learning to teach online, she challenges us instructors to establish and maintain relationships with our students, to provide relevancy, and to ensure rigor in our online teaching. As [...]
On Being An Adult Learner
Posted in Adult Learners, Assessment Leadership Academy, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, leadership on March 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Assessment Leadership Academy I am participating in has begun, and I feel like a student on the first day of class again. It’s been a while since I’ve been in this position — this position of student – as it’s been a while since I’ve taken a course, and I am particularly mindful of [...]
Learning To Dream Again
Posted in Adult Learners, PLA, Work, tagged adultlearners, Employment, highereducation, PLA, Work on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Catherine Hooper, an Organizational Communications major at Marylhurst University, recently finished her 9-credit PLA Portfolio for the following topics: COL 427 Great Meetings: Planning and Facilitating Difficult Group Discussion CCM 321 Small Group Communication COL 426 Team Building: Managing Work Groups In her Final Portfolio Reflection essay, Catherine wrote: The PLA program was especially valuable [...]
Installment #15: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Experience, Learning, Life, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, experience, Learning, Life, Toddlers, traffic on December 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Mac has a new game, and he plays it all the time. No, I mean All. The. Time! It’s called: Find A Parking Spot It’s also sometimes called: Stuck In Traffic Here is how you play this game. First, you have to find a parking spot for all the cars: Then, all the cars need [...]
Good News For The Cat
Posted in Adult Learners, Reflection, Wisdom, tagged adultlearners, reflection, wisdom on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today I get to share another nifty view of learning from Indexed. This is yet another reason why I like working with adult learners — they are experienced and, often, curious. Pop Quiz: How do you get from Point A to Point B? Answer: HERE
Installment #14: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Learning, Toddlers on November 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” ~e.e. cummings Mac likes to ride his bike through puddles. He seeks them out; we go on puddle-hunts. It’s a lot more fun than riding around the puddles, and when he finds a puddle to ride through, he gets happy and excited and scared and tentative and thrilled. He [...]
Informed By Life Experience
Posted in Adult Learners, Assessment, Experience, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, Reflection, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, experience, highereducation, Learning, Marylhurst, PLA, reflection on November 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hey everyone! Helen Fern just completed her 18 credit PLA Portfolio at Marylhurst! YIPPEE HELEN!!! Helen is a Human Studies major, and she earned credit through the PLA program for the following courses: Introduction to Photography Mushroom Identification and Taxonomy Anasazi Archeology Conflict Management Effective Listening Psychology of Loss and Grief Three of these topics [...]
From Work, To School
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Students, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, st on October 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My colleague and friend Harriet Schwartz offers some great strategies for transitioning between your day job and your evening classes in her blog The Encouragement Lounge. Read up here: Clear Your Mind I have one to add from one of my former students: If you can get to campus 10 minutes early, find [...]
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