Planning Programs for Adult Learners A Practical Guide

Planning Programs for Adult Learners, Fourth Edition covers the development of adult education programs in clear, specific detail. The book serves two purposes: as a resource for a synthesis of relevant literature that has influenced the practice of adult education, and as a comprehensive guide to planning educational programs. The book is an important resource not only for those who are full-time program planners but also for those who plan programs as one part of their job. Adult educators, HRD practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students, continuing professional educators, and trainers will find this book to be an essential tool.

Informed by a variety of planning models and planning-related research, the new edition includes:

• new refinements to the 11-component interactive model
• a focus on the challenges to educators of displacement, climate change, economic dislocation and inequality
• an international perspective on planning programs with more globally-relevant examples and research
• templates and other practical guides to help with planning and organizing common administrative tasks
• a template to create programs to address emergency critical events
• ideas for developing programs to generate dialogue and debate about rapidly unfolding world events
• a focus on critical managerial tasks
• formats for planning programs using current and emerging digital delivery tools and techniques including virtual and augmented reality

SANDRA RATCLIFF DAFFRON is a program planner, professional educator, project and program director, administrator, and organizational executive in the U.S. and the Middle East. She has extensive experience working with lawyers, judges, teachers, correctional educators, physicians, military trainers, and graduate students. She is Professor Emeritus of Adult and Continuing Education at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.

ROSEMARY S. CAFFARELLA is an emerita professor of education in the College of Agriculture and Life Science at Cornell University. Her research and writing activities have focused on adult development and learning, and program planning and evaluation. She has authored or coauthored a number of books, including the award-winning Learning in Adulthood.

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