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 ...

Last week we focused on the background to adult learning and the assumptions underlying adult learning with special emphasis on how this can be incorporated into corporate training. This week we will ...

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 ...

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 first principle that I am going to talk about has to do with the adults’ need to be involved in the planning and evaluation of their instruction. Unlike child learners who have decisions about ...

Learning and education play a fundamental role in effective patient care. Better adherence to treatment and outcomes are strongly tied to a sound understanding of the critical aspects of a disease and ...

As a developer-turned-CEO, Otto Berkes is a change agent who co-founded Xbox, co-invented 13 patents and now serves as the CEO of HireRoad. Nearly three-quarters of adults consider themselves lifelong ...

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 ...