Facilitating Adult Learning

This free training course on facilitating adult learning provides workshop facilitators with the mindsets, skills, and techniques to run workshops in a fun, engaging, and professional way.

Facilitators who will find this training course relevant include facilitators of a range of different types of workshops, including those who will be delivering the face-to-face session of a blended learning course.

Course duration: 2.5 hours

By completing this course, you will be able to:

• Articulate the principles of adult learning
• Describe a range of verbal and non-verbal skills facilitators should hone
• Apply more than twenty individual, pair, small-group and large-group facilitation techniques
• Assess participant learning in a workshop
• Effectively give and receive feedback from participants
• Prepare to deliver a dynamic and memorable workshop

The course can be completed as an online-only course or in a blended format where learners first watch the videos and then engage in a synchronous in-person session. A Facilitator Guide is available for download for the synchronous in-person session.

The course is available in Arabic, English and Russian.

This course was produced as part of the Aga Khan Foundation’s Civil Society programme.

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