New to this edition is the blending of a neuroscientific understanding of motivation and learning with an instructional approach responsive to linguistically and culturally different adult learners. Based on the most current educational and biological research, Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn addresses issues that focus on deepening learner motivation and helping adults to want to learn. In the book, Raymond J. Wlodkowski offers a clear framework and sixty practical, research-based strategies that are designed to elicit and encourage learner motivation. In addition, the book is filled with practical examples, guidelines for instructional planning, and cutting-edge ideas for assessment and transfer of learning.
Critical Grad Student Review This was an assigned text for a graduate-level course on Adult Learning Theory and Strategy with the University of Denver.What it did well:The structure of the book was pretty clear and concise. Wording was not overly complicated and it read pretty smoothly. Combines academic theory with practice. Overall, I consider it to be pretty comprehensive. At times there are some hypothetical examples included which can help enhance understanding.What it did not do…
Enhancing Adult Motivation To Learn–A Reader’s Review Raymond J. Wlodkowski’s Enhancing Adult Motivation To Learn is an excellent resource for anyone working with adult learners. It is comprehensive, clear, and easily applied in a variety of learning situations. Wlodkowski explains the affects of motivation on learning and on the instruction process, and how to develop strategies to enhance meaning, competence, and attitude, all of which affect the learning process.This is a book one can return to repeatedly, as I do, for help with…
Motivation “Before people can learn, they must be motivated to learn.” This is the main thesis of the book that I enjoyed to read and discuss for our Class AHE 581, Enhancing adult motivation to learn: A comprehensive guide for teaching all adults, by Raymond J. Wlodkowski(revised edition in 1999). I selected this book because I am very interested in a number of theories about the learning process and a model of motivation in action what are relating to my Human Services worker at the…