Planning Programs for Adult Learners

Strengthen your adult education program planning with this essential guide Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition is an interactive, practical, and essential guide for anyone involved with planning programs for adult learners. Containing extensive updates, refinements, and revisions to this celebrated book, this edition prepares those charged with planning programs for adult learners across a wide variety of settings.   Spanning a variety of crucial subjects, this book will teach readers how to: Plan, organize, and complete other administrative tasks with helpful templates and practical guides Focus on challenges of displacement, climate change, economic dislocation, and inequality Plan programs using current and emerging digital delivery tools and techniques including virtual and augmented reality Planning Programs for Adult Learners provides an international perspective and includes globally relevant examples and research that will inform and transform your program planning process. Perfect for adult educators and participants in continuing education programs for adults, the book will also be illuminating for graduate students in fields including education, nursing, human resource development, and more.

Figures and Exhibits ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Dedication xxi The Authors xxiii 1 Planning Programs for Adults: What It’s About Today, Tomorrow, and into the Future 1 2 Introducing the Interactive Model 29 3 Planning Programs in Difficult Times Using Technological Tools 55 4 Exploring the Foundations of Program Planning 91 5 Discerning the Context 115 6 Building Support and Identifying Needs 145 7 Developing Program Goals and Objectives 181 8 Designing Instruction 211 9 Transfer of Training: Adult Education and Workplace Learning 249 10 Formulating Program Evaluation Plans 283 11 Selecting Formats, Scheduling, and Staffing Programs 311 12 Preparing and Managing Budgets 343 13 Marketing Programs 379 14 It’s All in the Details 407 15 Using the Interactive Model and Looking to the Future 441 References 461 Index 511