EDU786: Adult Education Leadership: Higher Education

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
15

Overview

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

The course project, Adult Education Leadership in Higher Education, 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 higher education adult education programs. A final written report, Adult Education Leadership in Higher Education, detailing the process and outcomes of applying the learned leadership principles, strategies and methodologies for one of the sponsoring organization’s higher education adult education programs will be the synthesizing course project.

Course Learning Objectives

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

  • Analyze and explain the history of adult education degree programs.
  • Appraise and discuss faculty issues related to adult education degree programs.
  • Compare and contrast recruiting and retention strategies for adult education degree programs.
  • Evaluate and critique the use of technologies in adult education degree programs.
  • Assess and explain policy and accreditation issues in adult education degree programs.
  • Formulate strategies for successful adult education program management within higher education organization administrations.
  • Appraise and explain the major policy issues in higher education and their impact on adult education degree programs.
  • Analyze and evaluate the major contemporary issues in program planning and management of adult education programs in higher education.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Required Texts
EDU786 texts are available from the JIU/Follett Bookstore