What are the five factors of learning?

Personal Advantage:  Adult learners need to be able to recognise the personal advantage of what they are studying and how it meets a need they possess. They are inclined to learn if they are studying:

• Solves or avoids a problem for them.
• It provides an opportunity or higher status.

  Experiences: Adult learners bring a diverse set of expertise and knowledge to each learning session. They are driven to study if the education: 

• engages them in sharing their knowledge.
• expands on what they already know.
• It confirms their knowledge.

  Adult learners are self directed and require some influence of what they're understanding.  Take control of their education by making decisions regarding the content and procedure.

• Support for their colleagues' development.
• Must have had some independence in the educational process.

  Adult learners are engaged, pragmatic, and like to learn by doing. They learn best when: 

• The learning has an immediate application.
• They actively engage in the education process.
• Before leaving a learning program, they can practice new abilities or test new information.

  Styles of Learning :  Adult learners learn in a number of methods, from handson and physical to utilizing their eyes, hearing, and/or reasoning to acquire new skills and information. They gain knowledge when:  The learning taps into a variety of learning methods that suit their tastes and activate their "multiple intelligences'; and   Various means are employed to depict the subject being learnt.