You know how, at the beginning of the year, you make a bunch of plans and resolutions? You start out strong, everything is going great and then suddenly it’s February and you’re already behind. Well! Let’s go over a few tips to get you back on track! Prioritize Set a Time Frame for Your...
Utilizing Confirming and Corrective Feedback
A Familiar Scenario Imagine you spent an entire weekend writing a paper for your Instructional Design course. It’s a lot of work and you’re unfamiliar with the content. You dedicate a few hours to reviewing the syllabus, assignment description and resources and you feel pretty confident in your final result. When you get the...
Using Inter-team Collaborations to Promote Critical Thinking Skills
This is part of a 3-part series focusing on applying adult learning theory in the workplace. To see the other articles, view A Brief Intro to Adult Learning Theory and Self Directed Learning as a Training Solution Current Problem Teams across 15 campuses are finding it increasingly difficult to track information and share it with...
A Brief Intro to Adult Learning Theory
There’s a lot of info about learning theory in the early years, but what about for adults? That’s the first question every adult educator should start with. Unlike K-12 education, there aren’t strict governing bodies that inform every decision made in adult education. Instead, our community depends on years of independent and industry research...
Self Directed Learning as a Training Solution
This is part of a 3-part series focusing on applying adult learning theory in the workplace. To see the other articles, view A Brief Intro to Adult Learning Theory and Using Inter-team Collaborations to Promote Critical Thinking Skills. Current Problem Where I currently work, we are finding that our instructors need and crave more targeted...