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Adult learner
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<p>An adult learner—or, more commonly, a mature student or mature-age student—is a person who is older and is involved in forms of learning. Adult learners fall in a specific criterion of being experienced, and do not always have a high school diploma. Many of the adult learners go back to school to finish a degree, or earn a new one. </p><p><a href="/facts/Malcolm_Knowles/2bCpqJ4z">Malcolm Knowles</a>'s work distinguished adult learners as distinct from adolescent and child learners in his principle of <a href="/facts/Andragogy/XYoyWYIr">andragogy</a>. He established 5 assumptions about the adult learner. This included self-concept, adult learner experience, readiness to learn, orientation to learning, and motivation to learning. </p>