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 ...

Adults’ perspectives on the nature of their jobs also shape whether they have engaged in professional learning in the past year. More than half (55%) of employed adults view their jobs as a career and ...

One Boston high school developed a system of personalized adult learning when the school used four key culture shift levers.

Learning a new skill as an adult can be daunting, especially something as difficult as gymnastics. One adult gymnastics class shows there are serious benefits to adult learning.

Their results suggest learning a new language as an adult actually reroutes brain networks, igniting shifts that can have long-term implications on memory and cognitive function.

How to Accommodate Different Adult Learning Styles in Company Training Programs. Adult learning and its unique characteristics as compared to children are referred to as andragogy, a term ...

America’s Adult Education System Is Broken. Here’s How Experts Say We Can Fix It. Experts say that more money is critical to improving the national system. Many states have developed creative ...

Your employees bring a lifetime of experiences to every training session. Sometimes they’ll know more than you do about specific hazards and safety conditions in their current jobs.

At the same time, the emergence of online learning has also provided expanded opportunities for access to higher education for adults who can’t necessarily move but still wish to engage in ...

The National Center for Education Statistics, run by the U.S. Department of Education, recently released alarming statistics regarding adult literacy in the United States. Using the data from the ...

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series recounting the history of the Dover Adult Education Center, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. For the past five decades ...