Adult Education and Training (AET)

Degree Overview

Gain skills to successfully administer and deliver a wide range of adult training and educational programs. Course work focuses on program development and evaluation, adult learning theory, and instructional methods, with electives designed to build upon your areas of expertise and interest. With project-based work that ensures real-world knowledge and immediate application on the job, you will learn to think more strategically about:

• Program Development
• Learning Transfer
• Program Assessment
• Training Return on Investment (ROI)
• Learning Technologies

Colorado State's online Adult Education and Training (AET) program is designed to prepare you for planning and instructional responsibilities appropriate for adult learners in postsecondary, community, and corporate settings. The program represents a coherent, progressive, and current curriculum in the main content areas of adult learning.

Offered through the School of Education in the College of Applied Human Sciences, this program is learner-centered and encourages lifelong learning of its participants through a program that is based in practice, yet grounded in current adult learning theory. The online format allows you to earn a master's degree and still maintain your personal life and career.

Degree Benefits

This master's degree is an advanced credential for the promotion or new job that you want. Other benefits of this degree include:

• Encouragement of individual and professional growth through exposure to other colleagues and collaborative and project-based learning environments.
• Immediate, on-the-job application of knowledge.
• Preparation to work in a variety of adult learning environments within a culturally diverse global context.
• Assists you in becoming critically reflective practitioners, capable of conducting and communicating workplace research as it relates to and informs the field of adult learning and training.
• Instills in you the successful qualities of adult learning facilitators and the lifelong learning aspects of the profession.

Earn an accredited master's degree at a Top Tier University, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges and Universities." There are many other benefits to earning your Adult Education and Training master's degree from Colorado State University:

• CSU faculty have both real world and academic experience to ensure the curriculum is leading edge and applicable.
• Earn the same accredited degree and receive a Colorado State University diploma identical to that given to on-campus students.
• Learn online and still receive many of the benefits of being an on-campus student.
• Attend the CSU graduation ceremony in person and participate in the on-campus graduation ceremony. You can also view a live online streaming video of the graduation ceremony.