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Most organizations use the classroom setting to provide the tools their members will need to be successful in their assigned positions within the organization. Organizations are pressed to meet the operational needs- stakeholder demands, and personnel. STESSA IT Solutions can assist your organization by providing instructional and other technology based solutions to bridge the gap within the needs of your organization.

Online and/or self-directed instructional strategies differ greatly from the formal classroom setting. Also, adult learners differ greatly from their younger counterparts; "adult learning focuses on learners as individuals since they have large and different prior experience or knowledge" (Huang, 2002).

Principal emphasis in education should be placed upon skills-skills in handling,
in seeing and imaging, and in symbolic operations, particularly as these are related to the technologies that have made them so powerful in their human expression (cited in Huang, Brunner, 1964).

Technologies

Adult learners use technologies as intellectual partners in order to (Huang, 2002):

• Articulate what they know
• Reflect on what they have learned
• Support the internal negotiation of meaning making
• Construct personal representations of meaning
• Support intentional, mindful thinking

Reference: Huang, H.M. (2002). Toward constructivism for adult learners in online learning environments. British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol 33 No 1 2002 2 7-3 7