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Summary
Summary
This authoritative sourcebook is a timely decision-making tool for companies making the transition to (or already using) e-learning. Featuring all-original contributions from high-profile practitioners and renowned theorists, the book reveals how top companies are implementing and using this crucial employee development tool. Topics include: * analyzing organizational need * selling e-learning to the organization * learning management systems * synchronous collaboration * learning portals * repurposing materials * outsourcing and vendor relations. Other chapters focus on motivation and retention, technological and software options, measuring ROI, and more." "
Author Notes
Editor George M. Piskurich (Macon, GA) is an organizational learning and performance consultant specializing in e-learning design, performance improvement analysis and intervention, and telecommuting initiatives. He is the author of The ASTD Handbook of Training Design and Delivery and has been a classroom instructor, instructional designer and corporate training director. Contributors include: Bill Ellet and Alaric Naiman, Tom Floyd, Darin Hartley, Paul J. Guglielmino and Lucy M. Guglielmino, Russ Brock, Harvey Singh, Travis Piper, Bray J. Brockbank, Saundra Wall Williams, John Hartnett, Mike Fink, Curtis Kanahele, Patrick M. Hentschell, Larry Israelite and Nanette Dunn, Jennifer Hofmann, Carole Richardson, Brandon Hall, Loretta Donovan, Vicky Phillips, Allan Berger, Thomas J. Labonte, Wayne Turmel, Jim Burrow, Elliott Masie, and Clark Aldrich.
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Choice Review
The AMA Handbook of E-Learning gives human resources (HR) practitioners a clear roadmap for investigating e-learning as a training solution. The many contributors guide the reader from needs assessment and establishing the business case for e-learning to implementation and evaluation. In between are chapters that will inform decisions about internal versus external sourcing of e-learning solutions, vendor selection, curriculum development, and software selection. An especially strong chapter by Carole Richardson provides a very realistic and positive view of the process of repurposing classroom training/educational materials for e-learning. While seasoned HR practitioners and those knowledgeable about e-learning will find some chapters rather elementary, almost all readers will find useful information. Editor Piskurich, an organizational learning and performance consultant, drew on contributors with solid credentials in training and e-learning. Readers may find themselves wishing that Piskurich had sorted the chapters into sections and included section introductions to impart a clearer sense of the major elements of the e-learning design and implementation process. Still, the handbook is a useful and strong reference and guide for HR professionals considering the leap from the classroom to virtual training. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Graduate and professional collections. B. J. Keinath Metropolitan State University
Table of Contents
| Chapter 1 What is E-Learning? |
| Chapter 2 Is E-Learning Better Than ... ? |
| Chapter 3 Analyzing the Organization's Need for E-Learning |
| Chapter 4 Selling E-Learning to Your Organization |
| Chapter 5 Are Your Learners Ready for E-Learning? |
| Chapter 6 Increasing Learner Involvement and Participation |
| Chapter 7 Synchronous Collaboration, Live E-Learning, and Beyond |
| Chapter 8 Outsourcing Your E-Learning Projects |
| Chapter 9 Learning Management System for E-Learning |
| Chapter 10 Discussion Groups and Chat: Electronic Tools for Building Online Communities |
| Chapter 11 Bandwidth Be Damned: Why Only Lazy Trainers Worry About Bandwidth Issues |
| Chapter 12 Sound and Video for E-Learning |
| Chapter 13 Learning Portals |
| Chapter 14 Making the Internal/External Decision |
| Chapter 15 Clicking With Vendors: What to Ask Your E-Learning Vendor Before You Get Involved |
| Chapter 16 Designing Asynchronous Learning |
| Chapter 17 Getting Ready for Synchronous E-Learning |
| Chapter 18 Re-Purposing Materials For E-Learning |
| Chapter 19 Using Technologies in a Blended Learning Curriculum |
| Chapter 20 Implementing E-learning |
| Chapter 21 Keeping E-Learning Going: Motivating and Retaining E-Learners |
| Chapter 22 How Do I Choose E-Learning Software That Will Keep Going and Going |
| Chapter 23 E-Learning And Performance |
| Chapter 24 Evaluating Your E-Learning Implementation |
| Chapter 25 Level Three Evaluation of E-Learning |
| Chapter 26 E-Learning ROI |
| Chapter 27 Some Near Term E-Learning Perspectives |
| Chapter 28 Global Learning, 2008 |
