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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are 36 million adults lacking basic literacy in the United States. Many of them might be considered relics of the industrial age supplanted by an era of knowledge work, but an estimated 12 ...

Scenario-based learning is in line with strategies for teaching adults known as andragogy, a term popularized in contemporary higher education by Malcolm Knowles (1913–1997), a central figure in U.S.

How does the MIT Media Lab develop its adult learning tools? By envisioning them as scaffolding constructed to support learning, according to Juliana Nazare, Masters student at MIT and research ...