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 ...

The ideal culmination of successful learning, including literacy learning, is the development of expertise. The expert learner forms conceptually rich and organized representations of knowledge that ...

You may want to keep your eye on the clock as you begin that new company training program at your small business. It probably will be only a matter of time before you commend your employees for being ...

Andragogy vs pedagogy vs heutagogy? Instrumental or reflective or motivational or transformative? There are many names for the many theories we use to explain now people learn.” 1 It doesn’t matter ...

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 ...

Whether it’s healthcare professionals picking up local dialects to better care for their patients or corporate trainers mastering new techniques to effectively share operational knowledge with new ...

Adult learning, a phenomenon that has immense complexity, occurs daily across various business environments. This process is driven by the advancement of technology, IT improvements, changes in ...

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 ...