Is there a role for trainers, teachers and instructional designers in terms of building motivation into training? We'll cover issue regarding motivation of learners in a number of different training and education settings.


PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING - Motivating the Adult Leaner

By Stephen Lieb - Contains some of the tired old cliches about adult learners BUT, then goes on to discuss six motivational aspects that are not usually discussed. (Added: 16-Sep-2009 Hits: 894 )

They're Not Just Big Kids: Motivating Adult Learners

By Dr. Karen Thoms - A ten page paper on motivating adult learners, coming from an adult education perspective. Keep in mind there are other very powerful theories relevant to motivating adults that are not included in andragogy. (Added: 16-Sep-2009 Hits: 691 )

Motivating Students

By Barbara Gross Davis - Barbara Gross-Davis lists key features that enhance student motivation, including making students active learning participants by setting achievable goals, giving prompt feedback, and emphasizing mastery and learning rather than grades. (Added: 15-Aug-2007 Hits: 1002 )

Motivate Employee Participation in Professional Development Opportunities

By Gayle Lantz - When companies think of employee development, they often search for training programs, educational seminars, coaching or the latest book that might offer ideas on what employees can do to sharpen skills or strengthen expertise. However, none of these programs will be effective if the organization lacks one critical success factor: individual motivation. An individual has to want to develop himself before any employee training and development program can be successful. (Added: 30-Jul-2007 Hits: 560 )

Motivating Adult Learners

By ECU - No workplace trainer can force motivation upon their learners, but creating motivational situations that enhance learner motivation is relatively easy. To do this, workplace trainers have to concentrate on their learner and motivation as an internal concept whilst developing complimentary intrinsic motivational strategies. while doing so, workplace trainers should also keep in mind the notion that extending this concept too much may lead to sentiments such as %u201Cif they%u2019re not prepared to learn it%u2019s not my job to persuade them.%u201D Developing motivational strategies to enhance workplace learning will not only benefit the workplace trainer but the learner as well. (Added: 9-Jul-2007 Hits: 1568 )

They're Not Just Big Kids: Motivating Adult Learners.

By Thoms, Karen Jarrett - This paper discusses motivation of adult learners. The first section discusses the adult learner, including the concepts of andragogy and pedagogy, as well as student-centered learning. The second section summarizes changing student demographics and predictions. The third section presents principles of adult learning. The fourth section covers characteristics of adult learners. There's more, and you can access the abstract plus the entire article here. (Added: 9-Jul-2007 Hits: 331 )

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