Adult Learning in the Workplace

UPON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE COMPETENT IN:

• Investigating contemporary paradigms that explain how adults acquire and use knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
• Explaining the nature of relationships among individual factors such as learning style, personality profile, age, life experiences, and developmental level of adult learning.
• Analyzing learning styles, types of motivation, modes of operation, and the resulting consequences for self and others.
• Forecasting possible trends and developments which will affect both organizations and individuals and recognizing their implications for adult learners and managers of adult training.
• Developing critical thinking skills of adults to include the ability to learn, to reason, to think creatively, to make decisions, and to solve problems using critical thinking.
• Applying prominent theories of career development and adult learning to training methodologies.
• Assessing specific jobs, tasks, and roles in terms of essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
• Guiding others to recognize and understand personal needs, values, problems, visions, and alternatives.
• Analyzing the impact of organizational changes upon the work force and identifying resultant learning needs.
• Critiquing learning from the various levels of complexity according to Bloom’s taxonomy.
• Developing a philosophy of the training function within an organization to include values and beliefs about the role of training in accomplishing organizational objectives.
• Defining lifelong learning as a conscious and continuous process of discovery.
• Explaining the principles for creating a positive learning experience through on-line learning.
• Analyzing the impact of social media and social networks on adult learning.
• Assessing specific models of learning and the link to transfer of learning.