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HE521 Unit 2 Assignment 2: Final Project: Title Page and Introduction
Assignment Introduction
This Assignment will get you started on the path to successfully completing your Final Project. In Unit 1, you explored with your peers the emerging issues that have impacted adult education in the 21st century. Some of those emerging issues may have been the increased numbers of adult ESL students, adults entering higher education underprepared for the rigor of college-level courses, or the increased use of technology in adult education, along with many more. Your Final Project will focus on one emerging contemporary issue within adult learning or education that you are interested in researching and developing throughout your Final Project.
Throughout this course, you will be working on your Final Project within the following units:
Unit 2: Title Page and Introduction
Unit 3: Literature Review, Contemporary Practices for Teaching Adult Learners, and Adult Learning Theories and Models
Unit 4: Adult Cognitive Development
Unit 5: Practices for Teaching Adult Students, Conclusion, and References
Assignment Directions
Create your APA paper using the following resource:
Kaplan University Writing Center. Quick Guide to APA. Retrieved from http://www.screencast.com/users/KUWC/playlists/Citation+Videos/media/4573c75a-15d3-4d35-90f0-773eab4a3192
Create your Title Page and Introduction using APA format.
Save your Final Project paper in the following format: “LastName_FirstName_FinalProject”.
Complete each item on the Title Page and your Running Header.
Select one contemporary, emerging issue in adult education identified by the class on the Unit 1 Discussion Board for the topic of your paper.
Complete the Introduction and include the following:
● Provide background information about the emerging contemporary issue that you chose.
● Offer the reader information that will generate interest in your topic.
● Tell the reader the focus of your project. What are you going to cover? It can be an implied or direct purpose statement.
The introduction should be a half page. Please write using a formal academic tone.
Your instructor will review and provide feedback within your submitted Final Project APA paper for Unit 2. It is your responsibility to make the necessary corrections within your Final Project, save the document, and then you will add the next section of your Final Project in Unit 3. The Final Project with all sections completed and your revisions completed will be turned in at the end of Unit 5.
This Assignment addresses the following unit learning outcomes:
Compare traditional and adult learning-based theories and models.
Examine how economic, historical, and sociocultural contexts impact upon adult education.
It also addresses the following course outcomes:
HE521-2: Compare traditional and adult learning-based theories and models.
HE521-5: Analyze emerging issues regarding the teaching of adults.
Points and Rubric
This Assignment is worth 40 points. The rubric for this Assignment is available from the Grading Rubrics link under Course Home.
Submitting the Assignment
When you are ready to submit your Assignment, select the Dropbox tab and choose the Unit 2: Assignment 2. Make sure that you save a copy of this Assignment that you submit.
