Today the American Council on Education (ACE) released a paper that highlights the many areas our nation’s system of education is failing the adult learner, and provides meaningful insight and recommendations on how to address the needs of this vast audience.
The paper is titled “Post-traditional Learners and the Transformation of Postsecondary Education: A Manifesto for College Leaders,” and can be found by visiting the ACE website:
Click to access Soares-Post-Traditional-v5-011813.pdf
Key highlights include:
- Bring in non-academics from the workplace to improve teaching and learning for nontraditional students.
- Encourage colleges to embrace rather than resist new types of credentials that don’t originate in academe.
- Rebuild the Definition of postsecondary education from the post-traditional learner 0ut.
- Be entrepreneurial, not merely “stewards” of current practices.
Robert elz 