Technology-Based Learning: Maximizing Human Performance and Corporate Success

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CRC Press, 1998 M07 29 - 336 pages
Companies worldwide are recognizing the critical importance of harnessing the learning capabilities of people and technology in the workplace. Technology-Based Learning:
Maximizing Human Performance and Corporate Success shows how to capture and leverage this power, through techniques of knowledge management.

This comprehensive overview examines the advantages and disadvantages of learning technologies, and provides a guide for selecting, costing, and applying the various techniques.

Technology in the workplace has many overwhelming possibilities-so many that they've left many managers and HRD professionals confused and perplexed. Let Marquardt and Kearsley show you how to bring technology under control to meet the needs of your company and your employees.
 

Contents

IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON ORGANIZATIONS
1
Technology and the Learning Organization
27
Technology and the Worker
43
TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEARNING IN THE WORKPLACE
57
Electronic Publishing
73
Teleconferencing Audio Video Computer and Desktop
101
Computer Conferencing
110
Simulation Simulators and Virtual Reality
131
Networks The Internet Intranet Web and LANsWANS
193
Knowledge Engineering The Technological Future
209
APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY FOR GLOBAL SUCCESS
233
Impact of Culture and Globalization on Technology
247
Acculturization of TechnologyBased Learning Materials
259
Best Practices in Learning Technology
265
Best Practices in Knowledge Management Technologies 28 1
281
The Future of Technology in the Workplace
295

Authoring Tools for Learning Technologies
143
Knowledge The Critical Resource for Global Success
155
Electronic Performance Support Systems
179
The Long and Winding Road
186
Glossary
309
AssociationsResources in Technology and Learning
315
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