Designing Web-Based Training: How to Teach Anyone Anything Anywhere Anytime
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by William Horton
Horton focuses on the design of web-based training programs. There is a wealth of information on making training materials accessible to a global audience. Horton provides insights into issues including cultural differences, using e-learning with an audience of nonnative speakers, and technological constraints.
Horton makes the point that traditional classroom training is provided under optimum conditions for teaching. Learners are typically away from home so they aren't easily distracted and the facilities are designed for training. Often in e-learning, learners are training from home or while on-the-road with no technical support, many distractions, and possibly inadequate technology. He provides several solutions to overcoming these and other obstacles.
Near the end of the book there is a chapter that briefly discusses simulation. This chapter is relatively weak, but there is a lot here of value if, whenever you encounter the word "course" you substitute "web-based simulation".
Posted by Michael Bean
