Application - allowing the participants to better address problems experienced in the field and provide a foundation to be successful. The Engine Systems Learning Center's training mission, goals and objectives are set in the context of the following assumptions about adult learners - technicians. Adults are motivated to learn as they develop needs and interests that training will satisfy. Therefore, adult needs and interests are the appropriate starting points for organizing the learning activities. Adult orientation to learning is life or work centered.
Experience is the richest resource for adult learning.
Therefore, the core methodology for adult learning involves active participation in a planned series of experiences, the analysis of those experiences and their application to work and life situations. Adults have a deep need to be self directing. Therefore, the role of the instructor is to engage in a process of inquiry, analysis and decision making with the learners rather than to transmit his knowledge to them. Individual differences among adult learners increase with age and experience. Therefore, adult learning programs must make optimum provision for differences in style, time and pace of learning.