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(More customer reviews)Bill Maehl's Lifelong Learning at its Best:Innovative Practices in Adult Credit Programs is an outstanding resource for post-secondary educators, programmers, administrators, and policy-makers. Those who are interested in enabling our universities to respond fully and effectively to adults will find this book full of valuable information, insights, models, and recommendations. The book's content is timely, especially with the growing national and international interest in credit and degree programs offered at a distance.
The primary content for the book was collected through national interviews and visits to innovative adult learning programs conducted at a number of universities. The goal of the book is to stimulate new ideas and programs at the post-secondary level rather than simply to acknowledge and describe outstanding innovative programs. Thus, the reader will find not only successful models, such as an excellent chapter on competency-based degree education, but also recommendations for how to promote innovation and overcome resistance and barriers to change through thorough study of how others have overcome these barriers. The book's approach illuminates not only the outcomes of innovation but also the processes that produced the innovation.With a wealth of professional experience and personal perspective derived from his years as President of The Fielding Institute and as an innovative administrator at the University of Oklahoma, Maehl has provided an important resource for anyone interested in adapting post-secondary systems, structures, and programs to future learning needs.
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"A must-read for anyone in higher education, human resource development, or adult education. This impeccably researched book reflects an encyclopedic and intimate knowledge of innovative adult higher education programs and provides an impressive historical context for such programs. It will be a classic sourcebook for anyone in the field."--Howard Y. Williams, professor emeritus, Human Resource Development and Adult Education, University of Minnesota"A comprehensive, careful, and compelling study of adult learners and learning today. Lifelong Learning at Its Best demonstrates why education--from cradle to grave--is so important to our society in coping with the demands of burgeoning technology, addressing global competition, and recognizing the need for ongoing job retraining. It should be required reading for leaders in education, business and industry, and policymaking."--C. Wayne Williams, president, Regents CollegeIt is widely accepted that lifelong competency in today's world requires lifelong learning. Schools, colleges, and workplaces have responded to this new reality by implementing educational and training programs. But which programs really work?Drawing from data gathered by the Commission for a Nation of Lifelong Learners--in a study directed by prestigious educational and business leaders--William Maehl offers strategies that have been most successful with adult learners across the nation. From Georgetown University to Toyota, he describes winning program models and all their components. Organized under such key learning objectives as competence, collaboration, and self-directedness, these success stories reveal the specific instructional, organizational, financial, and other program components that make the greatest difference in learning outcomes. For staff attempting to improve existing programs or for teams building new ones, this resource has all the practical ideas you need to design effective solutions.
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