The Adult Education was approved in 2013.

Adult Education provides a master's degree program at a distance offered from the Bloomington campus.  Graduates of the master's programs work with adult learners as teachers, facilitators, program administrators, and advisors in a wide variety of fields.  Adult educators are found in such diverse areas as continuing professional education, workplace education, health education, adult basic education, post-secondary education, distance education, volunteer education, correctional education, learner support services, and the military.

As the program is completed at a distance, students entering the adult education program are expected to exhibit basic skills with common computer applications.

Students must complete a minimum of 36 credit hours, including the following:

Required Courses (20 cr.)

• D500 Introduction to Adult Education Theory (3 cr.)  
• D505 The Adult as a Client of Education I (3 cr.)  
• D506 The Adult as a Client of Education II (3 cr.)
• D512 Seminar in Forms and Forces of Adult Education (3 cr.)
• D521 Participation Training (2 cr.)
• D625 Topics:  Introduction to Distance Education Systems in Adult Education (3 cr.)
• D625 Topics:  Capstone Seminar in Adult Education (3 cr.)

Elective Courses (16 cr.)

While there are no specialized tracks in adult education, students are encouraged to work with their advisor to focus their electives to meet their professional goals.  Distance options for focused electives include instructional design and development, workplace learning, higher education administration and student affairs, English as a foreign/new language, and teaching English composition.

A minimum of 9 credit hours outside of adult education are required.  These may be taken inside or outside the School of Education.  One course in educational inquiry methodology, EDUC-Y 520 Strategies for Educational Inquiry, must be included in this section.