What Are The Factors To Consider When Designing Adult Learning

Preparing and designing Learning and Development Activities
In this assignment I will address factors which influence learning and development activities, focusing on adult learning, organisational factors and key legislation which must be adhered to. I will describe different learning methods and learning resources and highlight both the advantages and disadvantages of each. I will also plan and prepare a full training session including development activities for a Team Manager with the objective for them to effectively manage the attendance of their employees.
Factors Relating to Adult Learning
Andragogy (adult learning) is a theory that holds a set of assumptions about how adults learn. Andragogy emphasises the value of the process
Ideas and concepts are more important than people. People with this style are more attracted to logically sound theories than approaches based on practical value.
Converging (doing and thinking - AC/AE) - People with a Converging learning style can solve problems and will use their learning to find solutions to practical issues. People with a Converging learning style are more attracted to technical tasks and problems than social or interpersonal issues. People with a Converging style like to experiment with new ideas, to simulate, and to work with practical applications.
Accommodating (doing and feeling - CE/AE) - The Accommodating learning style is 'hands-on', and relies on intuition rather than logic. These people use other people's analysis, and prefer to take a practical, experiential approach. People with an Accommodating learning style prefer to work in teams to complete tasks. They set targets and actively work in the field trying different ways to achieve an objective.
Barriers to Adult Learning
Barriers that are associated with adult learning
Visual aids include facial expressions and gesticulations of teachers, pictures, texts with illustrations, DVDs, etc.
Advantage: It makes recollection easier when, in an environment different from where you had learned the information, you see pictures similar to those through which you learned the information.
Disadvantage: the difficulty you experience when only texts and speeches are available for learning, without any visual aids.

The Auditory Style - Some people prefer to learn by hearing what they want to learn. Theirs is the auditory learning style. To learn, such people would prefer listening to discussions, talking matters over, reading out of texts or making use of e-courses containing audio recordings.
Advantage of this style is that you assimilate and retain information without having to see it in texts or pictures.
Disadvantage: the difficulty of learning among silently reading learners EG in a Library.

The Read/Write Style - If you learn best by reading texts or writing down notes from what you read, see or hear, then you are a read/write learner. Read/write learners need writing materials to take down points they think important from what they read, hear or