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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin
Do you want to elaborate on adult/professional education? Is that the equivalent of teaching as a college professor, or is it something completely different that I haven't heard much of because I'm a product of America's incredibly flawed education system. I'd be the first so sign up for something involving new and creative ways to reach students as I personally feel that the current education system has a lot to be desired.
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Your students would be adult professionals working for either a company with an internal training department, or a training company that is hired by a company to train their employees.
In my case, I teach Realtors how to market properties, maintain client relationships, etc. I also design and run our internal leadership program that involved teaching about generational identities, work and life management and even Eastern philosophy.
Its not quite as idealistic as public education, but its much more creative and the methods we get to use are great. Right now I'm converting all of our traditional classes to web-based "radio show" formats and moving the rest of the classes from Learning 1.0 to 1.5 and 2.0. Our classes now resemble group conversations, workshops and even gamerooms rather than lectures. And there IS NO TESTING as it is accepted in adult education that testing accomplishes NOTHING.
But my favorite part is the freedom to innovate and be creative. Read a journal article on a new methodology on Monday, start incorporating it on Tuesday. Its amazing what you can accomplish in a short amount of time when the chains are off.