Lies About Learning: Leading Executives Separate Truth from Fiction in a $109 Billion Industry - Softcover

Israelite, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1562864548 ISBN 13: 9781562864545

Publisher: ATD Press, 2006

Synopsis

Executives and other high-ranking organizational learning professionals have faced down a barrage of too-good-to-be-true proclamations and pronouncements in recent years. First were the claims that e-learning would soon replace all classroom training, followed closely by the absolute urgent need to install expensive enterprise-wide learning management systems to track and report on this brave new digital learning world. No wonder seasoned learning professionals find themselves a little jaded. ""Lies About Learning"" is a frank and entertaining look at where myth and reality diverge in the multi-billion-dollar workplace learning industry. Written by 12 high-level executives from a wide range of industries, ""Lies About Learning"" offers a rare insight into the business of organizational learning. From e-learning, to learning management, to leadership programs, to research and the value of consultants, this book exposes the most prevalent myths and offers the counterweight of reality and real world practice. In the end, ""Lies About Learning"" provides executives and learning professionals with the tools to ask the right questions and enable them to make learning decisions that are measurable, predictable, and meaningful for the organization.

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Synopsis

Executives and other high-ranking organizational learning professionals have faced down a barrage of too-good-to-be-true proclamations and pronouncements in recent years. First were the claims that e-learning would soon replace all classroom training, followed closely by the absolute urgent need to install expensive enterprise-wide learning management systems to track and report on this brave new digital learning world. No wonder seasoned learning professionals find themselves a little jaded. "Lies About Learning" is a frank and entertaining look at where myth and reality diverge in the multi-billion-dollar workplace learning industry. Written by 12 high-level executives from a wide range of industries, "Lies About Learning" offers a rare insight into the business of organizational learning. From e-learning, to learning management, to leadership programs, to research and the value of consultants, this book exposes the most prevalent myths and offers the counterweight of reality and real world practice.

In the end, "Lies About Learning" provides executives and learning professionals with the tools to ask the right questions and enable them to make learning decisions that are measurable, predictable, and meaningful for the organization.

Edition details

• Publisher: ATD Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1562864548
• ISBN 13: 9781562864545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240