A variety of sources provides us with a body of fairly reliable knowledge about adult learning. This knowledge might be divided into three basic divisions: things we know about adult learners and ...

Adults lead complex lives with limits on the amount of time they have to engage in formal learning. This reality, combined with the amount of effort and practice needed to develop one’s literacy ...

Safety training’s biggest problem can be summed up in two words: knowledge transfer. An abundance of teaching points are crammed into every lesson, but all too often, relatively little learning ...

Training transfer refers to the process by which adult learners apply newly acquired skills, knowledge and attitudes from formal training environments to real-world contexts. In adult education, ...

What Do Harvey and Irma have to do with learning? When (what we thought were) once in five hundred year storms hit every other week, it suggests there is something new going on--and another sign that ...

Welcome to the New Era of Learning for Seasoned Professionals Imagine a learning environment meticulously crafted for the experienced professional. This is the essence of what we strive for here at ...

Basic principles of motivation exist that are applicable to learning in any education situation. 1. The environment can be used to focus the student’s attention on what needs to be learned. Teachers ...

Referring back to the Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) Framework, we have looked at possible ways for making your teaching more inclusive. In addition to establishing inclusion, we want to help ...

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Students are often labeled unmotivated when they are actually exhausted or overwhelmed. Adults frequently misunderstand ...

Andragogy promises autonomy and respect, but who decides when learners deserve it, and what counts as learning in the first ...