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Actively engaging adult learners requires a unique set of skills and a broad understanding of adult development. The Higher Education and Adult Learning specialization was created specifically to improve the competencies of adult educators. Whether you teach at a community college or provide training for adults in a school district or corporate setting, this specialization has the versatility to meet your professional goals.

This curriculum is uniquely designed to teach research skills within content-specific courses, allowing you to immediately apply knowledge to practice. The combination of core content, research skills, and your final doctoral study project leads to your development as an innovative and critical thinker who is prepared to examine, experiment, and reflect on practices that empower adults to be lifelong learners.

Completion Requirements

• 54 minimum semester credit hours
  • Foundation course (6 sem. cr.)
  • Proseminars (18 sem. cr.)
  • Research sequence (18 sem. cr.)
  • Doctoral study intensive (12 sem. cr.)
• 1 face-to-face residency

Time to completion: 3 years, depending on individual progress. For a personalized estimate of your time to completion, call your enrollment advisor at 1-866-492-5336.

Walden offers frequent start dates so that you can begin when it’s convenient for you. Next Start Date: September 2. Admission policies vary by program. Call 1-866-492-5336 or apply now.

Curriculum

 

Course Descriptions (pdf)

Course Code	Course Title	Credits
	Semester 1
EDAD 8100	Foundations: Higher Education and Adult Learning	6
	Semester 2
EDAD 8101	How Adults Learn: Theory and Research	6
	Semester 3
EDAD 8102	Applied Research in Education	6
	Semester 4
EDAD 8103	Designing and Assessing Learning	6
	Semester 5
EDAD 8104	Facilitating Adult Learning	6
	Semester 6
EDAD 8105	Adult Learning: Trends, Issues, Global Perspectives	6
	Semester 7
EDAD 8106	Project Study: Research in Practice	6
	Semester 8
EDAD 8090	Doctoral Study Intensive	6
	Semester 9
EDAD 8090	Doctoral Study Intensive	6

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