A variety of sources provides us with a body of fairly reliable knowledge about adult learning. This knowledge might be divided into three basic divisions: things we know about adult learners and ...

Non-vocational adult education drawing on a person's own motivation comes with a variety of benefits that are also reflected on the person's close friends, family and work. Studying boosts ...

Learning a new skill as an adult can be daunting, especially something as difficult as gymnastics. One adult gymnastics class shows there are serious benefits to adult learning. Some things are easier ...

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 ...

What Do Harvey and Irma have to do with learning? When (what we thought were) once in five hundred year storms hit every other week, it suggests there is something new going on--and another sign that ...

As outlined in this presentation, limited literacy skills, lower educational attainment, and being an immigrant are potential barriers to motivation towards life-long learning among middle-aged adults ...

Referring back to the Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) Framework, we have looked at possible ways for making your teaching more inclusive. In addition to establishing inclusion, we want to help ...

Basic principles of motivation exist that are applicable to learning in any education situation. 1. The environment can be used to focus the student’s attention on what needs to be learned. Teachers ...

PLA will host a free webinar sponsored by Gale (part of Cengage school) on Wednesday, November 12 at 1:00 PM CT to share and explore key findings from the report “Expanding Possibilities: Public ...

Wiregrass Georgia Technical College President DeAnnia Clementsannounced Sandra Scurry, Adult Education Instructor, as the ...

So, why is it important to provide opportunities for learners to enhance meaning of what they have learned? Back to Wlodkowski and Ginsberg’s Culturally Responsive Teaching framework, enhancing ...

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