Adult learners 1: So how can you design safety training that uses these principles and gives the learning and safety results you want? Let's look at each in more detail. Adult Learners Are Self ...

Chapter One (“Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning”) is invaluable and worth buying the book for. There are also several articles by Jane Vella and synopses of her work that you can ...

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 ...

This week we will go a step further by exploring the principles of adult learning. The first principle that I am going to talk about has to do with the adults’ need to be involved in the ...

In 1980, the American educator Malcom Knowles identified four assumptions that distinguished adult learning (andragogy) from child learning (Figure 1). In 1984 he added a fifth – internal motivation – ...