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On-line versions of books authored, co-authored, or edited by Roger Hiemstra.

Creating Environments for Effective Adult Learning

The Educative Community

Individualizing Instruction: Making Learning Personal, Empowering, and Successful

Lifelong Learning: An Exploration of Adult and Continuing Education Within a Setting of Lifelong Learning Needs,

Overcoming Resistance to Self-Direction in Adult Learning

Self-Direction in Adult Learning: Perspectives on Theory, Research, and Practice

Changing Approaches to Studying Adult Education

This source is to help develop expertise in understanding adult and continuing education thorugh self-study efforts. The Lifelong Learning Reader

Background information on Roger Hiemstra.

General information related to the field of adult education or an introduction to adult education .

General information related to contemporary issues in adult education .

General information related to distance education and computer-mediated distance education.

Instruction and learning-related materials.

Conference planning and management-related materials.

Research methods and materials, and material related to a capstone or advanced understanding of adult education.

Material related to Ethics and the Adult and Continuing Educator.

Self-Directed Learning Information, the annual Self-Directed Learning Symposium, and the International Journal of Self-Directed Learning.

Here is information related to gerontology working with older adults.

Make job loss work for you. Colleagues Dr. Richard Deems and Dr. Terri Deems have authored a tremendous book on how to recover from job loss and get your career back on track. Contact me, rogerhiemstra@gmail.com, for further information.

Self-Directed Learning Tools, Techniques, and Resources.

Kellogg Project, Syracuse University, 1986-1993, Final Report .

Adult Education History Project.

Learn about Sam May, a well-known abolitionist, at this site.

International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame members can be viewed via the personal vita project.

In addition, here is an index to some Commission of Professors of Adult Education records in the archives at Syracuse University that have been scanned.

APA Primer (4th edition)

Some helpful writing hints on gender-neutral writing and on shortening a manuscript.

Some ideas on writing an executive summary.

Click here for information on an on-line dictionary developed by Dr. Bob Parks.

Click here for information from an on-line encyclopedia.

Here is a quiz to test your knowledge about older adults and the aging process.

Here is a second quiz on your knowledge of older adults and the aging process.

Participating in the future. A presentation at the 23rd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. Related Power Point slides.

Advancing an inclusive future for distance learning. An alternative presentation for the 23rd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning.

Rural learners: Internet uses. A presentation at the 22nd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. Related Power Point slides.

Self-advocacy and self-directed learning.

Founding of the AEA of the USA--1949-1955: Crucial roles played by Howard McClusky, Malcolm Knowles, and Cyril Houle.

Recognition of Cyril Houle's and Thurman White's Work in Adult Education and the Armed Services.

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