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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Much of adult learning occurs in a corporate environment involving a variety of training processes. In addition to applying the various learning styles, trainers need to have a working skill set to ...

Every student deserves an effective teacher, one who is always seeking the very best ways to reach each student. While there has always been an onus on teachers to commit to improving, state and ...

Faculty in the Family Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland, successfully implemented a change in teaching strategies that was based on the ...

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 ...