Abstract
Distance learning provides many benefits, including meeting the needs of nontraditional students with responsibilities to career and family that keep them from taking traditional college courses. Distance learning is designed to ensure compatibility with the characteristics and needs of the adult learner. By retaining their jobs while attending school, adult learners are able to continue to gain in work experience while pursuing educational goals (Lawrence,2007). Distance learning is gaining popularity among adults who are keen to upgrade themselves for better career opportunities. Distance learning provides an alternative for people to further their education without having to undergo the traditional classroom learning. Nowadays, more adults are becoming interested to pursue higher education in order to compete more effectively in the job market. In response to this growing interest in higher education, education providers are creating new courses using new technologies to meet the demand. Many distance learning online courses are developed to meet this increasing need (Godden, 2010). Kuhlmann, 2011, provided some considerations when building distance learning courses for adults such as set clear expectations and objectives; adult learners don’t like to fail; create an environment where they have as much freedom as possible; give them ways to collect information; focus on relevance; create a visual design. (Wetzel,2010). The discussion focuses on the importance of distance learning to adult learners and the various methods that they can use to learn and get their degrees and diplomas to meet their needs and goals.
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