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 ...

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 ...

In 1965, Robert Gagne published “The Conditions of Learning.” In the book, Gagne defined learning as, “a change in an individual’s capacities that continues during a specific period, and that cannot ...

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 ...

Last week when speaking on an education and technology panel at General Assembly, a tech career skills and credentials provider, I was struck by the approaches to learning design used in the adult and ...

Training is a common element of an organization's ergonomics program. Whether you manage ergonomics as a program or as a continuous improvement process, national organizations like OSHA, the National ...

As a developer-turned-CEO, Otto Berkes is a change agent who co-founded Xbox, co-invented 13 patents and now serves as the CEO of HireRoad. Nearly three-quarters of adults consider themselves lifelong ...

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 ...