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e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning
By: Ruth Clark , Richard E. MayereBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Pfeiffer
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In this thoroughly revised edition of the bestselling e-Learning and the Science of Instruction authors Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer— internationally-recognized experts in the field of e-learning—offer essential information and guidelines for selecting, designing, and developing asynchronous and synchronous e-learning courses that build knowledge and skills for workers learning in corporate, government, and academic settings. In addition to updating research in all chapters, two new chapters and a CD with multimedia examples are included.
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| Title of Business & Economics eBook: e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning | |
| Release Date: 12-21-2007 | |
| Publisher: Pfeiffer |
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e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning
Chapter One
e-LearningPROMISE AND PITFALLS
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS CHAPTER?
In this chapter we define e-learning as training delivered on a computer (including CD-ROM, Internet, or intranet) that is designed to support individual learning or organizational performance goals. We include e-courses developed primarily to provide information (inform courses), as well as those designed to build specific job-related skills (perform courses).
Since our first edition, synchronous forms of e-learning, also called virtual classrooms, have assumed a large and growing share of online training courseware. Therefore we expanded this edition to illustrate how our guidelines apply to virtual classrooms.
Instructional methods that support rather than defeat human learning processes are an essential ingredient of all good e-learning courseware. The best methods will depend on the goals of the training (for example, to inform or to perform); the learners' related skills; and various environmental factors, including technological, cultural, and pragmatic constraints. We distinguish among three design architectures for e-learning: receptive, directive, and guided discovery.
The e-Learning Bandwagon
In our first edition, we asked whether the proliferating cyber courses of the late 20th Century were harbingers of a new age in learning or just another overstatement of the expectations that had surrounded nearly everything associated with the dot com bubble. The trends in delivery media for workforce learning in the last six years, shown in Figure 1.1, are pretty convincing. e-Learning is here to stay! In our first edit
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