Adult Education in Academia offers roadmaps and tools for responding effectively to the changing needs of learners, educators, trainers, and administrators.The material discussed in various chapters is useful for all diverse teachers and trainers who want to effectively facilitate informationto their learners while keeping them engaged in the learning process. The contents are written with a cross-cultural flavor and diversity since today's educators are able to teach global audiences. The book aims to introduce the reader to a comprehensiverecruitment process for potential educators, development of faculty, retention practices of extraordinary facultymembers, effective facilitation skills, adult learning, online education, peer review process, and assessment of learning todeliver a quality program to all students regardless of geographic location or teaching modality. The material is designed to beuseful to employees, faculty members, associate deans, deans, and program directors both in public and private education arenas.The book is also written for faculty development and training as well as for use by higher education administrators. Collegesand universities wishing to adopt this material for their faculty development programs may contact the authors or the publisher.Schools, trainers and educators adopting this book or any of its chapters may contact the publisher or an author forreceiving the available supplementary facilitator's materials such as sample faculty training manuals, exercises, activities, andPowerPoint slides for presentation. This book discusses that extraordinary educators know what to teach, how to teach, as wellas how to continuously assess and improve. These extraordinary educators excel at creating exciting learning opportunitiessince they connect well with learners who learn the skills to reach their full potential.This book offers practical techniques, tips and guidelines for the creation of an extraordinary learning environment. It discusseslearning theories, needs assessment, twenty fi rst century facilitation tools, essentials of cyberspace education, diversitymanagement, outcomes assessment, mentoring of new educators, and retention of extraordinary human resources. RalphWaldo Emerson said that "the person who can make hard things easy is the educator," and Adult Education in Academia provideseducators with simple to implement tools to make learning more fruitful for students while assessing and enhancing theprocess for documentation and accreditation. Each of these real world practical facilitation techniques offers opportunities forbecoming and being an extraordinary educator.