Enaging Adult Learners With Meaningful Icebreaker Activities
Trainers, adult educators, facilitators and team leaders often struggle to find ways to engage their adult learners early during a learning event. Some argue that activities designed to help...
View ArticleCreative Accelerated Learning Training Activities Aid Adult Learners
A key element of accelerated or experiential learning is that participants are actively engaged in the learning process and working with one another. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is to...
View ArticleExperiential Learning Strategies Help Engage Adult Learners and Maximize...
Facilitators should constantly strive to learn new accelerated or experiential learning activities (energizers) and strategies in order to make their learning environments fun, engaging and effective....
View ArticleConnect Energizers to Adult Learning Objectives To Enhance Transfer Of Training
Always ensure that energizers (and anything else that you do in an adult learning environment) have sound purposes tied to your learning objectives. Never have learners participate in an activity...
View ArticleExperiential Learning Is Key To Helping Adult Learners Retain and Use What...
Accelerated learning strategies (e.g. adult learning games and activities, role play, visioning exercises, team building games, outdoor group activities [ROPES course] and similar techniques) applied...
View ArticleMalcolm Knowles’ Adult Learning Theory – Principle 2 – Self-Concept
In this post, you will read about the second of six adult learning principles proposed by Malcolm Knowles in his Adult Learning Theory. Self-Concept. Adults have an inclination to be self-directing....
View ArticleEngaging Adult Learners Through Use of a Music-Based Learning Activity
Brain-based research indicates that by incorporating music, fun and novelty into adult learning environments, the opportunity to maximize formation of memories and learner retention improves. The...
View ArticleAccelerated Learning: Using Adult Learning Styles to Engage Training...
Anyone who trains and educates adult learners must be familiar with how to effectively use accelerated learning (active learning) strategies related to adult learning styles or modalities to aid...
View ArticleCreate Backup Adult Learning Activities as a Training Contingency
If you have ever been facilitating an adult learning training session or educational event and found that you needed to deviate from your lesson plan for some reason (e.g. group size changed...
View ArticleThree Strategies for Making Energizer Activities Effective in Adult Learning
Like any other successful portion of a training or educational event, you must design energizer activities effectively if they are going to effectively and accomplish your intended purpose when working...
View ArticleAccelerated Learning Quote – Aristotle
Brain based research into how the brain best learns and assimilates information, so that it can later be acted upon, continues to support concepts of adult learning identified by Malcolm Knowles’...
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