Adult Ed × Ed Tech
A Working Space for Digital Learning in Adult Education
Most edtech discourse wasn't built with adult learners in mind. AdultEdTech sits at the intersection of adult education and educational technology — spanning instructional design, distance learning, digital and AI-enabled approaches, and field-based research — with an eye toward how these ideas actually hold up under real-world conditions.
The site invites practitioners, researchers, and field-based thinkers to examine how instructional ideas get designed, implemented, and stress-tested in adult education contexts.
It's also a space for the adult education community to think out loud — where instructional ideas get questioned, tested, and complicated by the realities of practice.
Thanks for being here. Welcome to the work.
Current Thinking
This site is part field note, part synthesis, and part working draft. Current areas of focus reflect questions that sit between instructional practice, research, and implementation.
AI in Adult Education
Practical use, instructional value, and the limits of current adoption.
Blended, Hybrid, and HyFlex Learning
How adult education defines, designs, and reports flexible instructional models.
Adult Learner Experience
Participation, persistence, and the conditions that shape engagement.
Digital Equity in Practice
Where access, support, and implementation begin to diverge.
🧪From the Lab
Who Trains the Trainers? A Note on Adult Education's AI-Readiness Gap
There are plenty of frameworks for what learners should know about AI, and next to nothing for assessing whether the people teaching adult learners are ready to teach it. A short, exploratory look at that gap in adult education—and a few places a fix could start.