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Mid-Atlantic Professional Development Ce...

Haskins, Mark E.

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Mid-Atlantic Professional Development Center: Lengthening the Half-Life of Learning

Haskins, Mark E.

PHA-0061 | Published August 24, 2009 | 3 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

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How can executive education providers and purchasers best facilitate the transfer of program learning back to a participant's workplace setting? All too often, busy schedules, dealing with one crisis after another, and superseding priorities hinder such a transfer. This case is best used in a course where issues of education program design and/or adult learning are topics of interest. Similarly, it can also be a valuable addition to a course focusing on creating a learning organization and/or talent development.

In this case, students are presented with the opportunity to brainstorm about ways they might pose for facilitating the long-term impact of an off-site professional development experience. They must think conscientiously about concrete things a sponsoring company and executive education provider can do to help program attendees remember, use, and benefit from the insights and ideas generated by their off-site professional development program experience. More generally, the case also presents a great opportunity for students to contemplate how adults learn. Much has been written on that subject and instructors may want to supplement the case with a reading on the subject.