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The ILEETA Learning Lab
The Learning Lab is a series of 60 minute interviews with ILEETA Conference presenters discussing the key teaching point takeaways from their conference presentation. These interviews are packed with great content and created to serve as weekly professional development training for ILEETA members.
The ILEETA Learning Lab
Enhancing Reality-Based Training with Adult Learning Principles - Mark Candies
Mark Candies will present Enhancing Reality-Based Training with Adult Learning Principles at the 2026 ILEETA Conference & Expo in St. Louis, 16–21 March 2026.
👉 https://www.ileeta.org/conference/
Enhancing Reality-Based Training with Adult Learning Principles
Mark Candies | ILEETA Conference & Expo
Course Length: 3:45
Reality-based training is most effective when it mirrors how officers think, decide, and act under stress. In this ILEETA Learning Lab interview, Mark Candies explains how adult learning principles can be deliberately integrated into reality-based training to improve retention, adaptability, and real-world performance.
The conversation explores how instructors can use constraints-led design, interleaving, effortful retrieval, and structured debriefs to move beyond scripted scenarios and single “right answer” outcomes. Mark also discusses how equipment, time, and organizational constraints influence training—and how instructors can mitigate those limitations through intentional design and facilitation.
This episode provides a practical preview of Mark’s session at #ILEETA2026 and delivers value for any instructor seeking to improve decision-making, contextual understanding, and learning transfer through reality-based training.
🎥 Watch the full interview:
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Instructor: Mark Candies
Connect with Mark:
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mark-candies-36a56375