Your employees bring a lifetime of experiences to every training session. Sometimes they’ll know more than you do about specific hazards and safety conditions in their current jobs. When you design ...

When you design safety training materials for the workplace, you're designing training materials for adults. Most of us are familiar with learning as a result of our own childhood educations, but ...

I’m often asked by coaches if I can recommend a book or resource on adult learning theory. Learning about adult learning is essential if we want to be effective coaches--it’s a knowledge set we can’t ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The new Diploma in Social Work (DipSW) requires practice teachers and academic tutors to foster student empowerment while at the same time ...

This paper explores the differences in assumptions about learning of pedagogy (the art and science of teaching children) and andragogy (the art and science of helping adults learn) and the ...

Last week when speaking on an education and technology panel at General Assembly, a tech career skills and credentials provider, I was struck by the approaches to learning design used in the adult and ...

The clinician educator track aims to give interested residents the knowledge and skills to begin their careers as clinician educators. Clinician educator track residents gain an understanding of adult ...

Some time ago, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, John Perry Barlow sent me (and a few thousand other friends in his "BarlowFriendz" group) a birthday message with a gift. The email recounted how, ...