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Adult learning principles
The document discusses adult learning principles emphasizing that adults prefer relevant and organized content that connects with prior knowledge. Engaging learners through interactive methods and avoiding unnecessary information enhances their ability to retain and apply new information. Effective training should be tailored to the specific roles of the learners to maintain engagement and facilitate learning.
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Introduces adult learning principles and asks if they apply to the audience.
Adult learners want relevant, organized content that connects to their experiences for better assimilation.
Highlights the importance of engaging adult learners through interactive methods like questions and exercises.
Uses a personal story to illustrate how linking new information to familiar concepts aids memory retention.
Emphasizes that adult learners prefer essential content and will ignore unnecessary information.
Points out the need for training to be specific to the learner's role, avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach.
Advocates for a well-organized presentation format that emphasizes digestible content, encouraging participant engagement.
Summarizes critical points: active participation, necessity of content, and organizing information for better retention.
Encourages sharing experiences of engagement in training and the connection of new content to previous knowledge.
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- 1. Adult Learning Principles ByVanessa Aller Does this apply to me?
- 2. Adults like tobe in charge of their learning and associate new info with old info. The Adult as Learner Adult Learning Principles In this e-learning, you will learn: Adults only care about content that is relevant to their needs. Content for Whom? Structuring the content for easy assimilation is more efficient. Organize Content Click here to review this section Click here to review this section Click here to review this section
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- 4. Vanessa Aller It isimportant to get adult learners involved in their learning process through the use of: • Questions • Problems-Solving Scenarios • Exercises • Additional Resources This will allow them to apply the content and store it in the long term memory.
- 5. Have you eventried to find similarities between new information and old information? I had the experience of teaching an 80-year-old man how to use a cell phone. Part of what I did was tell him that the red button and the green button are like the red light and the green light in a traffic light. The next day he came and said to me: “Hey, I was able to make a phone call. I remembered the red light means stop and the green one mean go like the traffic light.”
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- 7. Have you hadto complete a form that has optional fields? What do you do? Do you complete those fields? The majority of adult learners ignore any information that is not necessary just like people ignore optional fields in forms. Training is about content that the learner “needs to know” not “nice to know”. It is a waste of content because adult learners will ignore it.
- 8. Frequent Flier Seating (Excusedfrom safety demo) When you travel: have you ever had to train on how to communicate with the control tower or where to store the beverages? No. Why? You are the passenger not the pilot or the flight attendant. Training has to be specific to the role the person has in the organization. One size fits all is not a good approach for adult learners.
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- 10. Intro Content End Content Agenda Content Content Content Content Content Content Questions You loose your audience right about here MostPPT presentations look like the author dumped content between an introduction and a question slide. What happens with this structure? • You loose your audience • And they don’t learn every point presented.
- 11. Intro Part 1 Content Agenda Content Part 2 Content Content Content Questions Part3 Content Content Content Summary Questions Part 4 Content Content Content Summary It is best to group the information by areas which will allow for better learning, and an engaged audience because the information is easier to digest. It also allows for places where participants can ask questions or provide examples to illustrate the points presented and tied them to known information.
- 12. To summarize.... • Adultlearners like to be active in their learning process and like to connect new information with old information to make it easier to remember. • Use content that is necessary, not optional and make it relevant to the person receiving the training. • It’s easier to eat a cake in pieces than as a whole. Organizing content in small units makes it easier to digest and provides the opportunity for breaks that allow for participation.
- 13. Homework Share with usa training experience where you felt engaged throughout the training. What was it that made it engaging? Have you ever associate new content with previously known content so that you could remember?
Editor's Notes
- #4 There are two ways to make content engaging so students can learn: Engaging information and connect new information with old information.