E-LEARNING 2.0--New AMACOM Book Offers Readers a Fool-Proof Guide To the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly About E-Learning and How to Make it Work for Any Company
For more than a decade, e-learning has been hailed as the next big thing in training. According to a recent study conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Learning, between 25-50 percent of all employee training will soon be delivered remotely.
Published: 5/1/2009
When done well, e-learning is a powerful way for organizations to save money while providing the kind of up-to-date training and information that will help employees perform better and more efficiently. Unfortunately, all too often companies have spent an enormous amount of money creating several different projects—but they have not gotten what they expected out of their investment in this emerging technology.
Anita Rosen has spent the last ten years working with hundred of organizations that are incorporating e-learning into their business practices. In E-LEARNING 2.0: Proven Practices and Emerging Technologies to Achieve Real Results (AMACOM; January 29, 2009; $29.95 Hardcover), she explains what works and what doesn’t, offering businesses a best-practices guide for making their investment pay off. As she observes in her new book, “Many organizations initially look at moving training on-line to cut travel costs, to ease trainer schedules, or to provide training where it has not been available in the past. However, Web-based training is based on a different model than classroom training. A real benefit of moving training to an intranet/Internet model is that it provides an organization with availability and repetition.”
Using examples of successful companies like National SemiConductor, Telefonica, and the Texas Department of Transportation who have made the most of e-learning, Rosen shows companies how to:
- Get buy-in from trainers, employees, and subject matter experts
- Better integrate training needs with business direction
- Evaluate training initiatives
- Evaluate new and emerging technologies to see if they will power their initiative
- Gauge current courses to see if they are effective
- Add new technologies to provide better learning
- Understand what vendors are talking about so that they can make the best technology decision
Rosen even includes information on the integrating the latest technology, such as RSS, podcasts, and other Web 2.0 tools, effectively into the e-learning programs. Concise and easy-to-follow, E-LEARNING 2.0 will provide the reader with a clear vision of how to accomplish learning objectives and train more effectively.
About the Author:
Anita Rosen is a successful trainer, author, and speaker. She has appeared as a guest speaker on many business radio programs, and has been keynote speaker for a number of conferences. Rosen brings over 20 years of management experience in high tech marketing, project management, and sales. Currently she is President of ReadyGo Inc. She lives in Mountainview, California.
Title: E-LEARNING 2.0:
Proven Practices and Emerging Technologies to Achieve Real Results
Author: Anita Rosen
ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-1073-8
Pub. Date: January 29, 2009
Price: $24.95 Hardcover
Pages: 256
For review copies, call (212) 903-7951 or fax (212) 903-8083.
To purchase copies, call 1-800-714-6395.
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