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About.com – Adult/Continuing Education Links
http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/msubtheories.htm
About.com offers research articles on various learning theories and illustrates how they are applied to motivate and enlighten adult learners.

Adult Learning Theory: Implications for Distance Education
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/disted/final98/finallj.html
This site offers an annotated list of web sites which offer information on adult learning theories, learning styles, technology, the seven characteristics of highly effective adult learning programs, guidelines for working with adult learners, teaching methods, and more.

The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
http://www.aaace.org/
The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education offers online publications, professional tips, professional journals (Adult Basic Education, Adult Education Quarterly, and Adult Learning), information on current legislation, links to adult education resources on the Internet, and more.

Community Learning Network
http://www.cln.org/
The Community Learning Network offers over 5,800 annotated links to free resources on educational WWW sites and includes information about technology integration, lesson plans, adult education, learning theories, and professional development.  The focus of this site is on K-12 education, however the resources are applicable and can be adapted to a to an older audience.

How Adults Learn
http://agelesslearner.com/intros/adultlearning.html
How Adults Learn answers the question it proposes and a whole lot more!  This site offers information on andragogy, pedagogy, learning styles, motivation, learning resources, learning-to-learn, educational psychology, and has a slew of additional resources and Internet links.

Paragon Learning Style Inventory
http://www.oswego.edu/~shindler/lstyle.htm
The Learning Styles Resource site offers tests to determine your own learning style; definitions, research articles, and explanations of a wide variety of learning styles; links to additional resources; a bibliography of quality reading on the topic of learning styles; and much more.  Do not miss this informative site!

The University of Minnesota at Duluth – Learning Styles
http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/lrnsty.html
The University of Minnesota at Duluth offers a student handbook on learning styles, a database of over 50 different learning theories, recommendations for bridging the gap between instruction and learning styles, and links to additional resources.

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