Adult Learning

Making Learning Meaningful David Merrill conceptualized his instructional model after realizing that the learning process is not typically perfectly linear, but iterative. Traditional education featured an instructor who provided information and learners who received the information, completed a few practice assignments and a culminating assignment, proving receipt of knowledge.     Merrill understood through experience […]

Evaluating Training with the Kirkpatrick Model Training should be effective in supporting organization goals, but how should instructional designers and project managers measure the ROI of training programs? Don Kirkpatrick developed his four measurement levels to determine the effectiveness of training programs.  Results In the project initiation and planning stages, the learning designer works backwards,

Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction Huge lecture halls full of students. Low engagement. Death by slides. What’s the solution with limited L&D resources and high expectations for engagement and results? Gagné’s developed his Nine Events as a way of clarifying the process humans experience when learning. Amy Miner and colleagues at the University of West