Product DescriptionA comprehensive guide to help you cut through the hype in order to select the best E-Learning tools and vendors for your specific needs With its ability to both reduce operating costs and train more people, E-Learning is an attractive option for companies that are trying to balance business and educational goals. But in [...]
Product DescriptionIn Detail This unique book gives you more than just a guide to the Moodle software; it uses Moodle as a route to better teaching, more motivated students, and more successful courses. Moodle is the leading Open Source learning management system. Using Moodle, teachers can easily construct richly textured web based courses. A course [...]
Product DescriptionThis text serves as a resource and quick-reference guide for any course that demands technology skills. E-Learning Companion shows students how to adapt previously mastered skills–such as time management, note-taking, and critical thinking–to the online environment. The text also serves as a bridge for students who may be familiar with technologies such as real-time [...]
Product DescriptionDesigned for learning professionals and drawing on both game creators and instructional designers, Learning by Doing explains how to select, research, build, sell, deploy, and measure the right type of educational simulation for the right situation. It covers simple approaches that use basic or no technology through projects on the scale of computer games [...]
ISBN13: 9780787967079 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn this offbeat approach to leadership, college president Steven B. Sample-the man who turned the University of Southern California into one of the most respected and highly rated universities in the country-challenges many conventional teachings on the subject. Here, Sample outlines an [...]
ISBN13: 9780470432860 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description A road map for teachers who strive to be highly effective leaders in our nation’s classrooms Teach For America has fought the daunting battle of educational equity for the last twenty years. Based on evidence from classrooms across the country, they’ve [...]
Product DescriptionAs an international speaker and consultant to virtually every business sector over his more than thirty-five years of research and development in technology-based instruction, Michael Allen now speaks out about his frustrations with e-learning and brings fundamental issues to light. He shares specific, commonsense guidelines that reliably produce effective and practical learning solutions. From [...]
Amazon.com Review Setting Up Shop is designed both for professional craftspeople who often have the poorest and most sparsely equipped shops because they are too busy to make improvements, and for hobbyists and weekend warriors who need a shop for entertainment as much getting work done. Author Sandor Nagyszalanczy does a good job of pointing [...]
Review “…Logical format, clear instructions, and lots of practical examples… Highly recommended.” — Peggy Jacobsen, Ph.D., President, Puget Sound Chapter, Society for Technical Communicators”An important guide to this field…has the bases well covered.” — Carol Perkins, Training Development Manager, Brooktrout Technology”This is the first book I recommend if you don’t have the time to make [...]
In today’s fast-changing work world, employees constantly need to learn new skills. At the same time, training budgets are shrinking. Who’s left to do the training? Whether it’s a quick software demonstration or a two-day seminar, it’s often managers, supervisors, and team leaders who must provide this “training-to-go.” This concise guide focuses solely on the [...]