Maximizing Adult Learning

Engage in group activities with your peers as you learn about the actions that support, enhance, and promote learning.

Complete an instrument to determine your personal learning style.

Identify the presentation methods most suited to the different learning styles.

Consider the stages of learning and their implications for training transfer.

Experience a variety of ways to test for understanding and provide meaningful practice that increase retention.

Take home easy-to-use frameworks and checklists to guide the design and delivery of learning programs guaranteed to maximize adult learning.

Receive Complimentary Post-Learning Sustainment.

Describe the phases of an instructional design project

Apply principles of adult learning to course design

Use the Systematic Learning Process to ensure learner success

Plan motivational strategies that encourage adults to learn

Select presentation methods that address learners’ preferred learning styles

Design higher level questions to test for understanding and improve retention

Encourage retention and transfer of learning through a variety of application methods

Plan activities that let adults share their wealth of knowledge and experience

Incorporate fun into the learning program

Enhance the connections with learners through language choices

The FKA Instructional Systems Design Methodology

Adult Learning Principles

• What Adult Learners Like

• What Adult Learners Dislike

Systematic Learning Process

• Presentation

• Application

• Feedback

• Ratios

• Instructional Process

Keeping Learners Engaged

• Initial Motivation

• Ongoing Motivation (VIVE)

Learning Styles

• Visual

• Auditory

• Kinesthetic/Tactile

Presentation Methods

Testing for Understanding (TFU)

• Creating TFU Questions

• Higher Level TFUs

Stages of Learning

Application Methods

Games

• Icebreakers

• Learning Games

• Closers