Practices for successful adult learning differ greatly from those used for teaching children. This comprehensive certificate program introduces the key adult learning and cognitive science theories and demonstrates how instructional designers, facilitators, and other practitioners can put them into practice to maximize learning impact. With this critical foundational knowledge at your fingertips, you will be able to use adult learning principles to inform all aspects of your training initiatives , from needs assessment to developing learning content to learning transfer. Using an application-based approach, we’ll walk through proven techniques to motivate and engage your adults learners before, during, and after training events.