Developing Web-based Training - Hardcover

Steed, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0566081032 ISBN 13: 9780566081033

Publisher: Gower Publishing Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

The ability to deliver training and learning online to an individual's desk offers flexibility for the organization as well as the employee. This text explains how trainers can use self-paced, online learning to develop, train and improve performance. The author outlines benefits and drawbacks, cost considerations and the elements that make up a programme. The text also includes a detailed discussion of what is available in the UK as well as indepth case material drawn from organizations already using the technology. Using step-by-step procedures and assuming no technical knowledge, this book aims to help with the design of web-based training strategy.

About this title

Review

... reveals a wealth of research and in-depth knowledge about the web-based training industry and the computer based training industry which gave it birth. Written in an authoritative and easy-to-read style ... an excellent first essay into the subject of web-based training ... deserves to maintain a special place on the bookshelves of those engaged in online training design, delivery and analysis. -- Management Skills and Development, May 1999

... this practical book will help trainers and HR specialists design their own web-based training strategy. -- Training Information News Service, April 1999

For anyone who wants to put their toe in the water with web-based training but doesn't have webbed feet, this book will help. ... the chapters that deal with the learning implications of WBT are a valuable part of the book. -- Management Training and Development (New Zealand and Australia), July 1999)

I'd wholeheartedly recommend that you buy this book now. -- People Management, May 1999

If you are intending to take the Web-training path or are only at the stage of wondering what it can do for you, read and use this book by an author whose IT knowledge, experience and skills give him every credibility in the field. -- Training Journal, April 1999

If you know nothing about how training delivery will be affected and changed by Internet technology, or are at the early stages of considering introducing this to your portfolio of training methods, then you will find this book very useful. -- Personnel Today, June 1999

About the Author

Colin Steed is a recognized authority in the field of technology and training. He is the editor of IT Skills, was formerly the editor of IT Training, and is the founder of the Training Information Network and the Institute of IT Training.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gower Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0566081032
• ISBN 13: 9780566081033
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160