Teaching adults can certainly be challenging and fun as Renee stated. The benefit of teaching adults, from my perspective is that they generally know what they hope to obtain or have some specific goal in mind. From years of teaching in a traditional classroom to then moving a few years ago to online, I have found that the maturity level is higher online (generally) and the online students tend to be more focused overall. There are always exceptions; however, I have found that my students are overall more ready to move forward with their career and have a better plan for the future in mind. This is likely because the average age is a little older and therefore they have more experience in the real world.
