The Knowledge Café: A Unique Teaching Experience Susan A. Baim (2016)

ABSTRACT

Teaching adult learners in a community-based educational setting differs in many ways from applying typical campus-based or online instructional best practices. Adult learners show tremendous diversity in their backgrounds, approach learning in a myriad of different ways, and rely heavily on their past experiences to help guide their future knowledge
acquisition.

Teaching a thoroughly engaged and eclectic group of adult learners in an
“off-campus” setting can be rewarding and challenging at the same time.

This paper describes a collaborative partnership, known as The Knowledge Café, between a local community foundation and a regional campus of a major university to provide business owners with advanced knowledge on professional social media technologies.

Details regarding how the partnership was established are presented, along with teaching insights from the inaugural year of operation.

Suggested future work and activities provide an overview of how The Knowledge Café may evolve as the campus-community partnership
continues to grow.

Author

Susan A. Baim

Paper

• https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1125810.pdf

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