Teaching adults is somewhat different from teaching children. The science of adult learning is called andragogy. http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-knowl.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skQJo3Vpqvc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCZvGesRz8 http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/gradschool/training/resources/teaching/theories/kolb http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/pl3p/Self-DirectedLearning.pdf http://adulted.about.com/od/teachers/a/coursedesign.htm