An authoritative overview of the current state of the field of adult and continuing educationDrawing on the contributions of 75 leading authors in the field, this 2010 Edition of the respected Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education provides adult education scholars, program administrators, and teachers with a solid foundation for understanding the current guiding beliefs, practices, and tensio...

Creating a Place for Adult Learners in Higher Education offers deep insights into how to attract, teach, support, and retain students over the age of 25 – an important yet often overlooked student group.Comprehensive in scope, this book covers all the main aspects of adult students’ relationships with higher education institutions: recruitment, admissions, and financing; course and program provision and teaching approaches; and student support, retention, and completion. T...

In this book you will get the 10 Insider IELTS tricks that more than 500 students have already used to score their 7 or higher on IELTS.This book is for the student who is stuck at a band score of 6 or 6.5 and is ready to move to a 7 or higher. Our tricks show you exactly what you need to do to increase your score on the Academic or the General Exam. Every trick is directly linked to the way the examiner grades your exam.You'll learn:* Why you must have an overall tr...

Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy fingerstyle guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free guitar videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.***"I love this book. Like others in the series it it informative. Easy to follow and well written. I would recommend this book in addition t...

Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy rock fingerstyle guitar lessons.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"This book is very good. It helped me learn not only fingerpicking guitar, but also made me better at music theory." - Dave Turner, Stillwater MNProgressive Rock Fingerpicking Guitar contains all you need to know to start learning to...

Assessment is a value-laden activity surrounded by debates about academic standards, preparing students for employment, measuring quality and providing incentives. There is substantial evidence that assessment, rather than teaching, has the major influence on students’ learning. It directs attention to what is important and acts as an incentive for study.This book revisits assessment in higher education, examining it from the point of view of what assessment does and can do and arg...

The principles of adult learning underpin all corporate training programs including face-to-face and e-learning. Participants are encouraged to learn and are assisted in their learning by training programs that cater for different learning styles. All adults have a unique combination of preferences that make up their personal learning style. To be trained in contrast to a preferred learning style can result in training that is difficult to understand, poorly paced, and difficult to retain ...

Presenting a snapshot of contemporary international research into the pedagogy of lifelong learning and teaching, this book focuses on a wide range of issues related to lifelong learning, including higher education, community-based learning and literacy practices in continuing education. It highlights the fact that the wide-ranging conclusions they draw have vital implications for this rapidly changing field.The book reviews the emerging issues from researching teaching and learnin...

Ready to take your careerto the next level? Find out everything you need to know about effective written communication with this practical guide.No matter what your profession or stage in your career, being able to communicate well in writing is essential to getting your career started and achieving progression and fulfilment throughout it. Knowing about the different types of communication and how to harness the tools needed to use them effectively is therefore es...

You must embody mindfulness in order to teach it. The Mindfulness Teaching Guide offers a thorough and practical guide for mindfulness teachers and professionals, offering a systematic approach to developing the teaching methods, skills, and competencies needed to become a proficient mindfulness teacher.Mindfulness has captured public attention like never before. From the classroom to the boardroom, everyone is trying to make present moment awareness a part of daily life. ...

This is a core text for anyone training to be (or working as) an assessor in the further education and skills sector. It has all the information you need to work towards the assessment units for qualifications such as: the Award, Certificate and Diploma in Education and Training, or the assessment units of the Learning and Development (TAQA) qualification.The book takes you through all the information you need to know, opening up the topic for learning in a really accessible way. I...

Many language learning situations in the classroom lack visualisation, there is not always the resource you need for an ad hoc grammar point or other illustration, therefore being able to create a video, quickly, easily and cost effectively when needed is a really useful skill for the teacher and learners to know. Teachers could illustrate their lesson focussing on a specific story, grammar point or other topics of interest whereas learners could use such videos to demonstrate knowledge an...