Etiqueta: adulteducation

What is a lifelong learning

Lifelong learning is the self-directed, continuous quest to seek formal or informal education for personal enjoyment or to develop career skills as explained by the tutor Jesesica Keys at study.com. Your quest for knowledge doesn’t have to end at the classroom door, make education a part of your adult life and reap the professional and personal benefits of an insatiably curious mind. It’s never too late to start! Lifelong Learning refers to the voluntary decision…

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Practical tips on How (and How Not) to Use Social Media to Job Search

Social media, including sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, can help you find a job and connect with people who can assist you with growing your career.However, it’s important to be careful and consider what you should do on social media to aid your job search, here is a list of dos and don’ts when using social media for your job search: Do Create an Online Presence to showcase your skills and experience. Your online…

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Andragogy: what is it and how it applies to adult learning?

Andragogy, refers to “methods or techniques used to teach adults,” is a word coined in the 1800s by Alexander Knapp, a German educator, and popularized in the 1960s by Malcolm Knowles, an American educator whose focus was on adult education. Pedagogy instead is well known as a child-focused teaching approach. Comparison chart For Knowles, andragogy is premised on at least four crucial assumptions about the characteristics of adult learners that are different from the assumptions about child…

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Using social media for your job search

Nowadays social media are a potent ally in the job search; the labor market is constantly changing and adapting to the smartest technologies, looking for ways to complete tasks in the fastest but also effective ways. Within this overview, for someone approaching again the labour market after some time, it becomes essential to be up to date with the newest tools and resources to increase the chances to be recruited.   The old but good…

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