Technology-Based Learning: Maximizing Human Performance and Corporate Success / Edition 1

by Michael J. Marquardt, Greg Kearsley

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574442144
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/29/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Michael J. Marquardt, Greg Kearsley

Table of Contents

Impact of Technology on Organizations, Work and WorkersExplosion of Technology in the World of Work14 Ways Technology Has Transformed the WorkplaceTechnology and the Learning OrganizationTechnology and the WorkerTechnologies for Learning in the WorkplaceLearning Technologies for Maximizing Human PerformanceElectronic PublishingTelevision and VideoTeleconferencing-Audio, Video, Computer and DesktopInteractive Multimedia-Expanding Computer-Based LearningSimulation, Stimulators and Virtual RealityAuthoring Tools to Create and Manage Learning TechnologiesTechnology for Managing KnowledgeTechnology and Knowledge ManagementElectronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS)Networks-Internet, Intranet, Web, and LANs/WANsKnowledge Engineering-The Technological Future for Management KnowledgeApplication of Technology for Global SuccessSelecting and Evaluating TechnologyImpact of Culture and Globalization on Technology and LearningBest Practices in Learning TechnologyBest Practices in Use of Technology for Knowledge ManagementThe Future of Technology in the WorkplaceAppendicesIndex

Editorial Reviews

Explores the interplay of electronic technology, learning, and the workplace as all three are undergoing radical transformation, delving into such questions as whether teaching is necessary at all now or can people simply be provided with the tools and resources to access knowledge. Describes technology for learning in the workplace and for managing knowledge, and applications for global success. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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