SCoE: Adult Learning and Workforce Education

Introduces the key principles of adult learning, including learning styles and some specific difficulties faced by older individuals.

Describes three main learning styles - visual, auditory and kinesthetic - and the four personality types that all individuals display.

Provides an essential introduction to inclusive learning by exploring strategies that promote diversity and support inclusion.

Discusses how adults learn best and how avoid the common mistakes when designing or delivering training and education to adults.

Examines key findings for adult learners, including: trends in adult learner satisfaction and their likelihood to recommend their program to others; which factors contributed to the adult learner’s decision to enroll; and aspects of the student experience that matter to adult learners.

Presents insights from the past three Power in Numbers reports, accompanied by case studies that illustrate how organizations have implemented best practices in the real world.

This report presents the key results from the Priorities for Adult Learning (PAL) Dashboard which facilitates comparisons between countries along seven dimensions of the readiness of adult learning systems to address future skill challenges.

Provides a clear and comprehensive picture of the state of adult learning and education (ALE) around the world. Three reports have been published since 2009. The next GRALE will be published in 2019.

Pew Research Center report describes the extent to which America is a nation of ongoing learners.

U.S. Department of Education report offers seven strategies that hold great promise for improving the conditions that create and perpetuate poor literacy, numeracy, and problem solving.

Report to Congress summarizes the most recent available data on the implementation of Perkins IV Act, as well as student participation and outcomes for CTE more generally.

Summarizes the results of the Survey of Adult Skills; the survey provides a rich source of data on adults’ proficiency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments.

Takes a comprehensive and systematic approach to adult learning and education, defining three key domains of learning and skills: literacy and basic skills; continuing education and vocational skills; as well as liberal, popular and community education and citizenship skills.

Describing the commonalities and differences of UNESCO Member States as they work to improve their adult education sectors.

Expands on the data and analysis examined in the OECD Skills Outlook 2013: First Results from the Survey of Adult Skills by including data from nine additional countries that conducted the survey in 2014-15.

Chapter 4 focuses on lifelong learning. Better diagnosis and evaluation of adult learning programs, along with better design and better delivery of those programs, remain critical.

Mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

Nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

National Reports on the Development of Education submitted by countries since 1933.

Only ongoing assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in different subjects.

The Annual Reports and Information group within the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produces several reports each year that draw from over 25 surveys by NCES and other government agencies.

Nation's largest professional employee organization committed to advancing the cause of public education.

A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. Research includes K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform, teachers and teaching, higher education, military education and training, worker training, and substance-abuse prevention in schools.

Agency of the federal government that establishes policy for, administers, and coordinates most federal assistance to education.

Responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication.

Works nationally to improve learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for everyone.