adult learning – Dr Michael J Henderson

A Learning Commons Beyond Institutional Ownership

Institutions may remain useful nodes in education. The error is allowing the node to become the purpose.
Drawing on experience across vocational, community and higher education, this essay proposes a distributed learning commons in which learners retain continuity across settings, educators steward relationships rather than merely deliver products, and accountability demonstrates public and learner benefit rather than procedural compliance alone.

Adult education <> Adult learning

I have just spent some time interrogating ChatGPT about the connections between adult education, teaching and learning. This inquiry builds on earlier work I undertook more than a decade ago by using NGRAM Viewer-where I looked at the changing use of terms like adult learning and adult education. My thought at the time was thatContinue reading “Adult education <> Adult learning”