These 6 principles enable TAE sector policy makers, leaders and educators to shift from a technicalised and decontextualized notion of ‘skill’ to understandings of ‘skill’ as embodied learning, identity development, deep understanding and knowing in practice. This conceptual framework aims to assist adult educators in thinking about how to design and facilitate learning holistically, so that doing and knowing are integrated.

The Singapore Skills Framework (SFw) is a powerful tool in the facilitation of manpower development. A key part of the national Industry Transformation Map, it serves as a common skills reference framework for a wide variety of industries. Learn how to improve front-end L&D productivity and design effective and relevant training programmes and materials through the application and use of SFw content and documents.

Effective adult education is dependent on the trainers’ ability to design and deliver content in a way that focuses on the learner. Design thinking is an approach to problem solving which encourages innovation with an emphasis on empathy. Using the GRASP methodology, learn the foundations of design thinking and discover how it can aid in creating learner-centred training and learning experiences.

This course reviews literature (research findings) on lifelong learning in older adults, examines motivation of senior learners to learn and how to catalyse self-directed learning in senior learners, and identify their unique learning styles and preferences to develop appropriate training strategies.