Beyond E-Learning
Chapter One
Myths and Warning Signs
Learning is a much more complicated phenomenon
than can ever be limited to a classroom. In
organizational learning efforts, the confusion of
learning and training is fatal.
-Peter Senge
Training has a significant role to play in any successful business.
Organizations need highly skilled employees and great skill-building
programs. Faced with the ongoing challenges of constant change
and an insatiable need for knowledge, organizations have embraced
technology-enabled learning as a way to keep up. But sometimes the
implementation of learning technology becomes the objective
rather than the means to a valued end. There is no question that
learning technology is getting better and that it can support successful,
sustainable learning. But the perfect use of technology to
deliver bad or unnecessary training, or training that's offered to
the wrong people at the wrong time, is worthless for t ... read full excerpt from Beyond E-Learning: Approaches and Technologies to Enhance Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Performance ebook
