Learning Rants, Raves, And Reflections: A Collection of Passionate and Professional Perspectives - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0787973025 ISBN 13: 9780787973025

Casa editrice: Pfeiffer & Co, 2005

Riassunto

Learning Rants, Raves, and Reflections offers a unique collection of passionate, provocative, and personal stories that show how technology is transforming how we learn today and reveals what we can expect in the future. Written to be highly accessible, this non-technological book about technology provides a general overview of the current world of e-learning and includes real-life case studies, actual examples from organizations, and valuable lessons learned. Learning Rants, Raves, and Reflections also examines the promise and failures e-learning and the evolving tools that are changing the face of training and education. Edited by industry leader Elliott Masie, the book includes seventeen passionate and personal perspectives from today’s most respected learning experts. These learning snapshots reflect the current and future state of the industry. Throughout the book, these expert contributors rant (tell of their experiences when learning was thwarted), rave (recount times when learning was enjoyable and successful), and reflect (thoughtfully explore the nature of learning and the learner).

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Informazioni sull'autore

Elliott Masie is president of the MASIE Center and is an internationally-recognized speaker, futurist, humorist, author, and consultant on the critical topics of technology, business, learning, and workplace productivity. Masie is the editor of Learning Trends, an internet newsletter and a regular columnist in professional publications. He also leads the Learning CONSORTIUM, a coalition of 200 Fortune 500 companies cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies.

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"Learning is a topic that yields an incredible volume of rants, raves, and reflections. It is one of the only topics about which almost every person on the earth has a strong set of opinions that they can quickly articulate. Over the past three decades, thousands of people sitting next to me on airplanes have been asked a few gentle questions about their feelings and perspectives on learning, and during this time I listened and learned." from Learning Rants, Raves, and Reflections: A Personal Essay by Elliott Maise

Includes personal reflections from a distinguished list of learning experts including . . .
Sam Adkins
David Barton
Judy Brown
Vicki Cerda
Murry Christensen
Nancy DeViney
Lance Dublin
Carol Friday
Mike Hendon
Wayne Hodgins
Larry Israelite
David Metcalf
Elliott Masie
Paul Nennin ger
Mark Oehlert
Scott Sutker
Beth Thomas

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Learning Rants, Raves, and Reflections offers a unique collection of passionate, provocative, and professional stories that show how technology is transforming how we learn today and reveals what we can expect in the future. Written to be highly accessible, this non-technological book about technology provides a general overview of the current world of learning and includes real-life case studies, actual examples from organizations, and valuable lessons learned. Learning Rants, Raves, and Reflections also examines the promise and failures of e-learning and the evolving tools that are changing the face of training and education.

Edited by industry leader Elliott Masie, the book includes seventeen perspectives from today's most respected learning experts. These learning snapshots reflect the current and future state of the industry. Throughout the book, these expert contributors rant (tell of their experiences when learning was thwarted), rave (recount times when learning was enjoyable and successful), and reflect (thoughtfully explore the nature of learning and the learner).

These thought-provoking pieces, written exclusively for this book, will help to answer some of the thorny questions that have accompanied the learning revolution: Has the journey been rewarding or frustrating for the learners? What obstacles have implementers overcome to make their plans become realities? Is technology really changing the way we learn?

Written for learning professionals at all levels, Learning Rants, Raves, and Reflections clearly shows how technology is transforming our world and the critical role that learning plays in the lives of everyone?workers, customers, students, and business people.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pfeiffer & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0787973025
• ISBN 13: 9780787973025
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 310
• Redattore: Masie Elliott
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile