Web-based Training

Web-Based Training, edited by Badrul H. Khan, offers a complete and comprehensive examination of all major aspects of utilizing the Internet's World Wide Web for training at all levels, including corporate, government, and training for the technology industry. In addition, a number of chapters deal with teacher training. In 63 chapters, written by more than one hundred contributors from all over the world, this 624-page volume discusses how advances in information technology, coupled with massive changes in society, are creating entirely new paradigms for the worlds of both education in general and the training community. Rich, distributed learning environments are bringing about anywhere/anytime/anyplace learning opportunities. This encyclopedic volume, in a very readable manner, with clearly designed pages, figures, and tables, shows both practitioners and scholars how to deal with this newly emerging world. The book will be of use as well for graduate courses in instructional design, multimedia design and development, and the learning sciences. Web-based training, then, deals with open, flexible, and distributed learning environments, utilizing institutions often that are virtual in scope, that is, there is not necessarily any centralized campus. This book goes well beyond being a cookbook of designs but enables each readers to take advantage of the immense resources described here to develop his or her own point of view about the future of the Web as a learning medium.