Teaching and Training Adults

This micro-credential is for anyone interested in teaching and training in industry and/or an academic environment. It is designed to develop the skills and knowledge of novices and refine the skills of current practitioners. Each module emphasizes principles involved in the adult learning process. Coaching, facilitation skills, active participation, and learning by doing are stressed. The skills, ideas, expertise, and knowledge of the participants are utilized as key resources in learning about instructing adults.

 

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to: apply adult learning principles to the development and delivery of a lesson plan, engage learners to improve motivation, performance and goal achievement, select and implement a variety of teaching methods to facilitate adult learning, construct formative and summative methods to assess learning outcomes, develop and demonstrate an educational philosophy for continuous teaching and learning.