About

AdultEdTech is authored and developed by Jerry Yamashita (adult educator, researcher, and the person who implements the stack). Most edtech discourse wasn't built with adult learners in mind. AdultEdTech sits at the intersection of adult education and educational technology — spanning instructional design, distance learning, digital and AI-enabled approaches, and field-based research — with an eye toward how these ideas actually hold up under real-world conditions.

It brings together field-based practice, research, and systems thinking to examine how digital learning is designed and experienced under real-world conditions.

Adult education is often treated as downstream of K–12 and higher education. In practice, it is one of the clearest places to see whether ideas can actually hold when constrained by time, access, staffing, policy, and learner reality.

The work here is shaped by experience across adult education, instructional technology, and professional learning, including national and state initiatives focused on digital access and instructional change.

This site is not meant to function as a traditional portfolio. It is a place to document ideas, test approaches, and share work in progress. The Lab is where that takes shape through field notes, essays, policy reflections, and practical resources.