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Why an Online Master of Education from Penn State?
As the modern workplace evolves, organizations increasingly need professionals who can design and deliver effective adult learning programs through workforce training, professional development, and continuing education. Penn State’s online Master of Education in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education can equip you with the skills to meet this demand. Courses are taught by nationally renowned faculty from one of the country’s most respected programs.
This 30-credit flexible master’s degree delivered through Penn State World Campus can be completed online on your own time and can help you enhance your ability to reach and empower adult learners, plan enriching learning experiences, guide communities in capacity-building, foster advocacy and action, and conduct research in diverse settings.
Earning this credential can help qualify you to teach, train, or design programs in university, community college, corporate training, health care, or nonprofit settings.
Lead with Confidence in Diverse Adult Learning Environments
This program aims to prepare you to provide leadership in one or more of the domains of lifelong learning and adult education practice:
- teaching and learning
- curriculum and instructional design and development
- facilitating workforce development
- program planning and administration
- curriculum and program evaluation
- lifelong learning and adult education in the health and medical professions
Choose the Graduate Degree Emphasis That Fits Your Goals
Our lifelong learning and adult education master’s degree program is designed to meet you where you are in your career — and where you want to go next. Whether you’re seeking broad preparation in adult education or specialized expertise in global and distance education learning environments or medical and health professions education, you can choose the pathway that best aligns with your goals, interests, and the learners you serve.
Professionals who have already earned a master’s degree with relevant work experience and are seeking an advanced degree are encouraged to consider the online Doctor of Education program.
Earn a Certificate That You Can Apply Toward a Master’s
In addition to our online master’s program in adult education, Penn State World Campus offers a related certificate in distance education, a 9-credit postbaccalaureate program that explores adult education, online teaching strategies, and research in distance education.
The credits you earn in this certificate program may be applied toward the requirements for the Master of Education in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education, upon your acceptance into the program.
Act 48–Approved
Penn State is an Act 48–approved provider for Pennsylvania educators, so the courses for the Master of Education in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education may count toward your professional development hours.
Suddenly realizing that I now was going to make the commitment of working full-time and going back to school, I began to feel overwhelmed. After evaluating several options, it became clear to me that Penn State’s World Campus offered the program that I wanted -- with the flexibility I needed to pursue my master's degree.
