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 ...

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 ...

I’d like to state at the outset that I don’t believe androgogy and pedagogy break along a neat dividing line. There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that the tabula rasa is not much less cluttered ...

Adopting adult learning principles in assessment design can help to shift the focus towards authentic assessment tasks. That is, connecting assessment tasks with the real world makes learning ...

Adults lead complex lives with limits on the amount of time they have to engage in formal learning. This reality, combined with the amount of effort and practice needed to develop one’s literacy ...

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 ...

Lifelong learning encompasses all structured and unstructured learning activities undertaken by adults beyond initial schooling. It spans formal, non-formal and informal modes, aiming to foster ...

Andragogy, a term initially coined by the German educator Alexander Kapp in 1833, was later popularized by American educator Malcolm Knowles. It signifies a shift in educational methods and practices, ...