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 ...
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.
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, ...
As our economy enters a new era, so too must the world of postsecondary education. Twenty-five years after the Internet became commercially available, post-high school learning—which for adults is now ...
Research shows that adults often enter college with a goal in mind, such as a career pivot, additional education in their current industry or completion of a degree they previously started. But ...
Welcome to the New Era of Learning for Seasoned Professionals Imagine a learning environment meticulously crafted for the experienced professional. This is the essence of what we strive for here at ...
The top-down approach to adult learning is proving cumbersome, costly, and confusing. Those are the key takeaways from an analysis by Harvard University’s Project on Workforce examining the federal ...
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 ...
When most Americans think of the words “college student,” they think of eighteen- or nineteen-year-olds, fresh out of high school. That’s outdated. As of 2018, nearly 30 percent of undergraduates are ...
The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate. Adults have a number of advantages when it comes to learning a second language, and it comes with major benefits.
The operational landscape of the military has evolved to include irregular warfare, stability operations, and multi-domain operations across land, sea, air, space, and cyber fronts. This diversity of ...