Principles of adult learning facilitate group problem solving by: 1. Creating an optimum environment where people are open-minded, explore problems, listen to each other, and try to find the best solution. 2. Recognizing key aspects of adult learning like supporting learners' needs and life experiences, tapping into motivations, and ensuring learning is relevant. 3. Drawing on strategies like exploring benefits, building on experiences, providing choices, and relating issues to needs to engage learners in examining problems and finding solutions.

1. Principles of adult learning facilitate group problem solving
People will be open-minded, explore aspects of the
problem, listen to each other, and try to find the best solution
Create optimum environment for adult learning
Support learner's Support learner's Recognize role Recognize and Support learner's life- Recognize and
need to know WHY self-concept of of learner's past support learner's task- problem- support learner's
they need to learn being responsible for experiences readiness to centered orientation internal motivators
something their own decisions learn to learning to learn
Ensure
organizational
Match learning Tap into reward and
Explore Help learner discover Make sure it's incentive systems
gaps between where Provide opportunities to Create focus positive
benefits opportunities for Solicit learner's useful motivators are consistent and
they are now and Help learners developmental and
learner to be ideas intentionality provide motivation
where they want to examine habits transitions (job change, Match learning
be autonomous and and biases and responsibility change, situation and Neutralize
self-directing open their minds to life transition, etc.) content to life negatives
Make relevance new approaches situation (obstacles)
explicit: (mental models)
"why" Provide options Relate issue to Intrinsic value
Build on Devise relevant
and choices Draw on richness of opportunities to current needs Personal payoff
experience as a tasks and
Provide learn from and situations content
Compare to measurement resource; experience (even
job description opportunities Build on related past at the expense of
experience content)
Expose to role
models
Based on
The Adult Learner (5th ed., 1998) by
Malcolm Knowles, Elwood F. Holton III,
Richard A. Swanson; and
High Impact Learning (2001) by Robert O.
Brinkerhoff and Anne M. Apking
Karen O. Storer 2006
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