Use the research presented in your text to explain how nontraditional-aged college students are different from traditional 18- to 22-year-old college students when it comes to learning
What will be an ideal response?
Adult learners differ from their younger counterparts in several ways. Adults have a higher need to know why they should learn something before undertaking it. Adults enter a learning situation with more and different experience on which to build. Adults are most willing to learn those things they believe are necessary to deal with real-world problems rather than abstract, hypothetical situations. Most adults are more motivated to learn by internal factors than by external factors.
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