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All About the Adult Learner 360
The Adult Learner 360 tools are a pair of survey instruments that compare your institution’s perceptions against your adult students’ satisfaction with your programs.
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Institutional Assessment
The Institutional Assessment captures the institutional perceptions on a wide range of activities, policies and practices at your institution—from financial policies to assessing learning. Because a cross-institutional team of administrators and faculty completes this survey, it offers a unique opportunity to uncover how well the institutional offerings serve adult students.
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Adult Learner Assessment
The Adult Learner Assessment measures the reality of how students feel about your programs. Designed for adult and non-traditional students who are completing post-secondary programs, it measures both satisfaction and levels of importance.
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Determine Your Approach by Putting it all Together
The Adult Learner 360 report combines the results of both surveys to provide a snapshot of where your adult students and institution are right now. This process will help you decipher which adult offerings will significantly impact adult student enrollment, engagement and graduation at your institution.
And, as an Adult Learner 360 institution, you will become a member of the Adult Learner 360 Coalition.
Adult Learner 360 Principles
Adaptivity
This institution adjusts to shifting external market forces and is able to adapt to the changing expectations of internal stakeholders, students, and employers--understanding the needs of those they serve by developing creative academic solutions.
Strategic Partnerships
The institution engages in strategic relationships, partnerships, and collaborations with employers and other organizations in order to develop and improve educational opportunities for adult learners.
Assessment of Learning Outcomes
The institution defines and assesses the knowledge, skills and competencies acquired by adult learners both from the curriculum and from life/work experience in order to assign credit and confer degrees with rigor.
Student Support Systems
The institution assists adult learners using comprehensive academic and student support systems in order to enhance students’ capacities to become self-directed, lifelong learners.
Financing
The institution promotes choice using an array of payment options for adult learners in order to expand equity and financial flexibility.
Teaching-Learning Process
The institution’s faculty uses multiple methods of instruction (including experiential and problem-based methods) for adult learners in order to connect curricular concepts to useful knowledge and skills.
Life and Career Planning
The institution addresses adult learners’ life and career goals before or at the onset of enrollment in order to assess and align its capacities to help learners reach their goals.
Technology
The institution uses information technology to provide relevant and timely information and to enhance the learning experience.
Outreach
The institution conducts its outreach to adult learners by overcoming barriers of time, place, and tradition in order to create lifelong access to educational opportunities.
Transitions
The institution supports guided pathways that lead into and from the institution’s programs and services in order to ensure that students’ learning will apply usefully to achieving their educational and career goals.