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 ...

Over the past decade, brain scientists and education researchers have come to understand that in much the same way that personalities differ from person to person, the same holds true for adult ...

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 ...

Individuals take in and process information in a variety of ways, according to Terrence Maltbia, associate professor of organization and leadership at Columbia University. When it comes to employee ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

As more colleges face the reality of a declining traditional student population, there’s a common belief that adult students are where the growth is. But the reality is more complicated. There are ...