EDU785: Adult Education Leadership: Business & Industry

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
15

Overview

Business and Industry Adult Education Leadership covers the principles and practices of being a leader in a business or industry organization with adult education programs. It provides the knowledge, skills and abilities to accurately and completely evaluate, develop and utilize principles, strategies and methodologies for leading business or industry adult education programs. The course blends two instructional strategies. First, the student explores the basic principles and related practices, strategies and methodologies of leadership in business or industry adult education programs. Second, the student applies these learned principles and practices in a sponsored synthesizing project applying adult education leadership principles, strategies and methodologies in a business or industry adult learning organization.

The course project, Business and Industry Adult Education Leadership, is designed to demonstrate mastery of the course objectives. The application of adult education leadership will be conducted for one of the sponsoring organization’s business or industry adult education programs. A final written report, Business and Industry Adult Education Leadership, chronicling the process and outcomes of applying the learned leadership principles, strategies and methodologies for one of the sponsoring organization’s business or industry adult education programs will be the synthesizing course project.

Course Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify and evaluate training and education programs for business and industry employees.
  • Compare and contrast training and education programs for business and industry supervisors and managers.
  • Analyze and formulate training programs in support of organizational key performance indicators.
  • Evaluate and explain internal marketing strategies for training and education programs.
  • Appraise and create processes and programs to measure the organizational impact of training and education programs.
  • Assess and explain the major contributions of business and industry to the field of adult education.
  • Evaluate and discuss major contemporary issue in business and industry training and education programs.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Required Texts
EDU785 texts are available from the JIU/Follett Bookstore