How an Adult Learner Achieves the Learning Goals?

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How an adult learner achieves the learning goals? Learning can be defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge. Adults differ from children in terms of the quality and quantity of life experience they possess. Adults are juggling other life roles while attending school, including those of worker, spouse, parent, caregiver, and community member. These roles and experiences provide a wonderful asset for adults because the diversity of experiences can make learning more meaningful, relevant and rich. This essay will be focused to compare and explore the personality characteristics and learning preferences of adult learners like me. I am 32 years old, an adult learner and working on my Bachelors Degree in Transportation and Logistics Management. But I never thought that I will work on to get degree in Transportation and Logistics Management, because it was not my future dream and future goal, even it was not my interest too. Still I joined and working on that, but why? My simple answer is - I am an adult learner. Currently I am working as a supply clerk and will work for more 3 years, so I will get 4 years experience in supply and logistics. I belief that if I get same kind of degree, my experience will help me to get the job. Here what I want to say is I am an adult person, I have my wife and kids behind me, my degree goal is influenced by my job experience and immediate job requirement rather than my interest and future dream. Generally adults are more self-guided in their learning. They bring more, and expect to bring more, to a learning situation because of their wider experience. They require learning "to make sense" - they will not perform a learning activity just because the instructor said to do it. Adults often have a problem centered approach to learning. And most of these characteristics applies to me also. But learning style appears

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