After posting Motivation in Adult Education yesterday, I got an email from a reader who pointed out that it’s important to provide information that the learners need, and that’s not always easy when they’re sent to a required class by a supervisor. And I have to say that I fully agree. This is part of what I mean when I talk about relevance.

I think it’s safe to say that everyone has had the experience of being in a class of some sort and wondering what the use of being there is. Sometimes, especially in high school or colleges, the answer is that the course is a requirement or that you need to take it in order to understand the next course. But those are …

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