| Distance Training: How Innovative Organizations Are Using Technology to Maximize Learning and Meet Business Objectives Contributor(s): Berge (Author), Schreiber, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0787943134 ISBN-13: 9780787943134 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1998 Annotation: For the distance training provider, today's amazing array of advanced communications technologies poses many exciting possibilities. But it also makes for a daunting challenge. How can you employ these technologies-each with its inherent strengths and limitations-to implement the most effective distance and distributed learning? And how can you use them to best meet your organization's strategic goals? Through the use of sixteen lively case studies, Distance Training shows readers the innovative ways in which organizations have used various communications technologies to maximize employee learning and meet business objectives. Each study illustrates distance-training applications ranging from the dissemination of information to building skills in critical thinking and problem solving, to changing attitudes, and to shaping organizational culture. Taken from corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies, these studies also show how providers managed to overcome the many organizational and technical obstacles that stood between them and the successful realization of their learning events, programs, and designs. Readers will benefit from the best practices embedded in each case study, which are summarized at the end of the book. They will also gain from the set of guiding principles that provides a framework for discussing distance learning in organizations-principles that represent systems engineering strategies for the design, development, and implementation of distance training processes. Including a history of distance training and in-depth advice on instructional design, policy issues, organizational restructuring, and technical and electronic systems development, Distance Training gives practitioners and aspirants to the field a concrete, real-world look at how state-of-the-art distance learning can actually be achieved. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Training - Business & Economics | Human Resources & Personnel Management - Education | Distance, Open & Online Education |
| Dewey: 371.358 |
| LCCN: 98040416 |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 7.44" W x 9.36" (1.85 lbs) 496 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the University Continuing Education Association's CharlesA. Wedemeyer Award, which recognizes highly meritorious book-lengthpublications that advance research in independent study anddistance education. This manual is the one we have been waiting for It takes dead aimat all the important issues facing distance learning providers andhits the bull's eye on every one of them. It is down to earth, realworld, and up to date. Its examples and insights for practitionershelp create the sense of urgency and excitement all of us indistance learning feel today.--Michael P. Lambert, executivedirector, Distance Education and Training Council Today's advances in communications technology have created excitingnew possibilities for training professionals. But not alltechnologies are created equal. Distance Training examines thesenew tools to show how compressed video, satellite broadcasting, theInternet, and other innovations can each be used to their bestadvantage. In-depth case studies of sixteen progressiveorganizations--NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, and Unisys among them--providereal-world models readers can use to design learning programs thattranscend the traditional boundaries of time and space by turningthe home, office, and meeting room into immediate, effectivelearning environments. |