participant-centered education
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Our current association adult education is a victim to an outdated teacher- and expert-centered model. It has its roots in puritan beliefs that wisdom is evil and the less we know, the more innocent we are. To succeed we must move out of the didactic traditional training box. We must refocus on people, how they learn best and their needs. We need to transition from expert-centered models to participant-centered models. This requires a fundamental shift in our current education programming and an unlearning of pedagogical models as applied to adult education. In the end, telling doesn't equal learning. Nor does covering content mean content is learned. Thinking, doing and participating reign. The four essential components of instructional interactivity come from Michael Allen's research and writings.TRANSCRIPT
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Participant-Centered Education Rules!
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Which of these LOs
important to you?
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Your Turn
1. Compare & contrast pedagogy, andragogy,
expert-centered & participant-centered
education.
2. Identify the four essential components of
instructional interactivity.
3. Discuss how to overcome common
resistance to participant-centered
education. 6
Write down what you know
about participant-centered
education.
Share your thoughts with
those around you.
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Your Turn
Why is the majority of association education
both F2F and online didactic & expert-centered?
Way we were taught in school.
Education model built upon industrial
revolution model.
16th & 17th Century Puritan Beliefs
Knowledge & wisdom evil.
Adults were to direct, limit & control a
child‘s learning.
If children didn’t know, then we could
keep them innocent.
Root of pedagogy – art & science of
how to teach children.
Pedagogy – focused on expert-centric
Telling does not
lead to learning.
Presenters talk, audiences listen.
Experts decide what content audience
needs to know.
Experts first, audiences second.
Andragogy is the art & science of helping
adults learn.
Andragogy focuses on the learner first &
their needs, then how to help the adult
learn that content.
Andragogy is learner-centric education.
Why should associations
change to andragogy,
learner-centric &
participant centric models?
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Your Turn
20 years of
research in
neuroscience,
biology & cognitive
psychology on how
human brain learns.
Evidence points to one singular conclusion:
The one who does the work, does the
learning.”
What work? What is
learning?
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Your Turn
Learning is not a conduit.
Learning is not a conduit.
Experts have an idea. They share it with the
audience & then audience has it.
Implicit in process is that
learning is passive.
If knowledge can be handed to us,
then all we need to do is receive it.
Learning is more like construction.
Learning is more like construction.
We have to actively construct our own
meaning of it.
Info has to be worked with, questioned,
tested, practiced, applied.
raw materials of info are transformed and tested
as audience builds their own understanding.
Your education should be like a...
How does “your education
should be like a construction
site” affect your offerings?
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Your Turn
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
1. Context
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
Context – must be meaningful
For participant-centered education to rule
it must contain context.
What impact does context have
on credentialing & certification
programs?
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Your Turn
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
1. Context
2. Challenge
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
2. Challenge – some type of question
the learner needs to answer
For participant-centered education to rule
it must contain a challenge.
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
1. Context
2. Challenge
3. Activity
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
3. Activity – physical gesture to the
context & challenge
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
3. Activity – ways to communicate
decisions, demonstrate abilities, ask for
assistance, test ideas, state answers.
For participant-centered education to rule
it must contain an activity.
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
1. Context
2. Challenge
3. Activity
4. Feedback
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
4. Feedback – acknowledgement of
learner’s activity & info about
effectiveness
For participant-centered education to rule
it must contain feedback.
4 Components of Instructional Interactivity
1. Context
2. Challenge
3. Activity
4. Feedback
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