Conference

Got to go to a conferene this last week. It was pretty cool. I listened to Dr. Gary Conti. Dr.Conti is a professor of adult education at OSU. Dr. Conti has developed numerous educational testing measures including the Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS), the Self-Knowledge Inventory of Lifelong Learning Strategies (SKILLS), Assessing The Learning Strategies of AdultS (ATLAS), and Philosophies Held by Instructors of Lifelong-learners (PHIL).

His instruments have been used in approximately 150 dissertation and other research
studies. He has published roughly 100 articles, chapters, and monographs related to adult learning and teaching adults learners. Dr. Conti is a living legend of Adult Education. His presentaton was solid and entertaining. He does a good job of using multimedia to make points. He highlighted his ATLAS learning Strategies measurement with out group. This theory postulates that there are three primary learning strategies: navigators, problem solvers, or relaters.

One of the interesting things about his research is that large groups are almost always fairly evenly devided into thirds along these group membership lines.

I loved goint to the conference, and I look forward to the next one.