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 ...

Have you held a professional development course at your organization and found your audience to seem disengaged and disinterested? Have you put hours into developing a curriculum, working on your ...

Several advantages emerge when embedding adult learning principles in authentic assessment design to make the learning process visible. First, it allows students to use life experiences to make sense ...

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 ...

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 ...

Culture shift is a remarkably difficult task, but one which, as we move toward learner-centered education design, is absolutely necessary. Culture shift towards innovation-developing an agile ...

Learning doesn’t stop once you graduate. Adulthood brings new challenges and ambitions that reignite the desire for education. So what specifically drives adults back into the learning space, and why ...

Salesforce.com's huge Dreamforce conference, held last week in San Francisco, brought together 45,000 registered participants in an event promoting a collaboration-based "social enterprise." Since ...