Web–Based Training: Creating e–Learning Experiences - Hardcover

Driscoll, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787956198 ISBN 13: 9780787956196

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Synopsis

This all-new edition of Web-Based Training is filled with practical charts, tables, and checklists that shows you how to design winning training programs for delivering instruction on the Web. Well grounded in the time-tested principles of great instructional design and adult education, Web-Based Training takes a step back from the whirlwind of technical guides and offers a extensively-researched handbook. For everyone seeking to learn more about the subject, Driscoll gives you illustrative examples from a wide range of organizations large and small and the book's CD-ROM contains a strategic presentation with eighty slides and has helpful links to the World Wide Web.

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Review

"This is a book that blends history, advice, and insight into atool that can be used either as an introduction to Web-basedtraining or as a field guide for every training developer....Margaret Driscoll is uniquely qualified to produce such ahigh-quality addition to every training manager's library."--Cushing Anderson, program manager, Learning ServicesResearch

"I recommend this book to everyone who asks me for e-learningresources. Its descriptions are clear, its recommendations arepractical, and it helps e-learning practitioners, new andexperienced, focus on one of the most overlooked parts ofe-learning -- instructional design." --Dawn Adams, content development manager, Microsoft

"Besides my books, this is the only one worth reading. Want toknow what Web-based training and e-learning are? You can spend fiveyears mucking around, or you can read this book." --WilliamHorton, author, Designing Web-Bassed Training, Leading E-Learning, and Evaluating E-Learning

"Offers updated insights and sound advice. Explains theuniversals of training...while preparing readers for the change ine-learning, including the rise of mobile computing and educommerce, and the growing link with knowledge management." --SaulCarliner, author, An Overview of Online Learning

"A must-have book for anyone who has responsibility for ensuringthat e-learning is successful in their organization. It not onlyprovides the information and the tools you'll need, but through theexercises you'll be able to gain critical first-hand experience."--Lance E. Dublin, Lance Dublin Consulting

About the Author

Margaret Driscoll is the instructional design manager for Centra Software, a manufacturer of web-based training software. She recently was awarded a Ph.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0787956198
• ISBN 13: 9780787956196
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352