Training Older Workers and Learners is a groundbreaking resource that focuses exclusively on age 40-plus workers. This much-needed resource offers trainers expert guidance and practical tools designed to deliver effective training and re-training to older worker-learners (OWLS). Based on sound theory and best practices, the book shows how to maximize the workplace learning and performance potential of late-life learners.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures, Tables, and Performance Support Tools xiii
Benefits Statement xvii
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxvi
Part 1 Make Way for the OWLS
Chapter 1: The OWLS Are Here 3
Chapter 2: OWLS as Workers 25
Chapter 3: OWLS as Retirees—Or Not 49
Chapter 4: OWLS as Learners 73
Appendix 4.1: Competencies for Older Workplace Learners 91
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Part 2 OWLS in Transition
Chapter 5: OWLS in Search of Wisdom: Cognitive Development 99
Chapter 6: OWLS in Search of Knowledge: Learning Styles and Challenges 125
Chapter 7: OWLS in Search of Self: Psychosocial Transitions 149
Chapter 8: OWLS in Search of Function: Physiological Development 167
Chapter 9: OWLS in Search of Well-Being: Health, Wellness, and Leisure 187
Part 3 Transforming OWLS
Chapter 10: OWLS in Action: Sharing Experience and Motivation 209
Chapter 11: OWLS on Teams: Collaborating to Learn 227
Chapter 12: OWLS on the Job: Learning with the Workflow 247
Chapter 13: Live OWLS: Learning in the Classroom 269
Chapter 14: Virtual OWLS: Computerized, On the Web, At a Distance, Digitized 287
Chapter 15: Collaborating with OWLS 307
Glossary 331
References 343
About the Authors 369
Index 373
About the Series Editors 385
About the Advisory Board Members 389
About the Author :
James L. Moseley is associate professor of instructional technology at Wayne State University College of Education. He teaches program evaluation and human performance technology courses and advises graduate students at the doctoral level. Joan Conway Dessinger is a senior consultant and founder of The Lake Group, a consulting firm that specializes in analyzing, designing, developing, and evaluating workplace learning and performance interventions.
