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Certificate in Teaching Adults (Online at your own pace)


Adult Enrichment / Academic -
Online Certificates and Courses 2025

This is your invitation to teach others in-person and join in one of the more important functions in life - passing on knowledge and skills. It is both an opportunity and a responsibility. Whether you want to teach others or currently teach others, in any setting, either formally or informally, this course is for you. We will give you both the fundamental and advanced information to improve your teaching. Your lead instructor is author of How to Teach Adults, the best-selling book on the subject. The ebook version is included in the course.


Courses are online and asynchronous, meaning students may login to the classroom anytime during the course session, day or night, 24/7. For more information, go to our Online Professional Development Certificates & Courses FAQ


Class details:

Unit 1: How adults learn
  • Emotional characteristics, self-image as key
  • Physical characteristics and your physical surroundings
  • Mental characteristics, adults display a readiness to learn
  • Social characteristics, learners’ experiences, schooling, and prior experience
  • Keys to helping adults learn
Unit 2: Tackling learning styles
  • Sensory learning styles
  • Gender learning styles
  • Neurological learning styles
Unit 3: Generational learning styles
  • The cohort experience
  • Understanding generational differences
  • How Baby Boomers learn
  • How Gen X and Gen Y learn
Unit 4: How to prepare for your course
  • Preparing the Course
  • Goals, objectives, and end results
  • Amount of material to cover
  • Slant or approach, a range of ways to approach your subject
  • Materials preparation
Unit 5: Discovering and involving your participants
  • Finding out more about your participants
  • The First Class, why this meeting is critical, ice breakers
  • How to involve your participants
  • The Teachable Moment, a special time when you let go for awhile
Unit 6: Ways to vary your teaching techniques
  • Modes of teaching, different formats for various situations
  • Tips on how to lead a good discussion
  • How to ask a good question - one of the most overlooked skills
  • Making small group activities successful
  • Energizing your physical learning environment
Unit 7: Great presentation techniques
  • Surprising do’s and don’ts of presenting
  • Advanced presentation techniques
  • Teaching tools, including audio-visuals
  • Handouts that really zing
  • Learning mediums, extra special touches to enhance learning
Unit 8: Improving your teaching
  • Measuring results and learning
  • Using the web in face-to-face courses
  • Improving your course, every time
  • Learning and teaching in the 21st century
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Instructor

William A Draves


William A. Draves is one of the foremost authorities in the world on teaching online. More than 6,000 faculty and teachers have taken this course. He did his graduate work in education, with an emphasis on adult education, from The George Washington University in Washington DC.

Draves has taught for over thirty years, including teaching at the graduate level. His books include "How to Teach Adults," the most popular book ever written on the subject, and "Energizing the Learning Environment."

He has been interviewed by Wired.com, The New York Times, NPR, NBC Nightly News, Washington Post, Virtual University News, Chronicle of Higher Education and other national media.

Draves is author of the book, "Advanced Teaching Online," which is used as the text book for this course. This course is part of the Certified Online Instructor (COI) designation, the most recognized certification for online teaching in higher education.

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Online
Sun-Sat, Feb 1 - Mar 28
12:01 AM - 11:59 PM

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Min Age   18 yr.

Price: $ 295 00
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Online
Sun-Sat, Sep 2 - Oct 31
12:01 AM - 11:59 PM

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Min Age   18 yr.

Price: $ 295 00
Registration begins  
Jan. 7th at 9:00 AM