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Title: Designing Web-Based Training : How to Teach Anyone Anything Anywhere Anytime by William Horton ISBN: 0-471-35614-X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 09 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Long on tips. Weak on theory.
Comment: This book contains a collection of web design tips which are in the main useful but not earth shattering. Where the book fell down, for me at least, was in the area of theory. It is weak here, and that can be a major problem if you want to conduct a scientific evaluation of the work using the umpteen heuristics suggested by the author. I doubt that there is enough information in the text to adequately help one frame an evaluation of a course, let alone put one together.
The book really has very little to say on instructional design methodologies. The reader is told to bear X, Y and Z in mind and then thrown a few sample scenarios (with screen shots). In many ways this is the tenor of the whole book: a vast and never ending list of do's and don'ts and qualifications to those do's and don'ts. I have to demure from the consensus among the other reviewers and adopt a minority position because quite frankly compared to other eleraning books, I found this one almost unreadable. The book is fullof particularities that are never adequately situated within a theoretical framework. It just seems like bad science to base so many recommendations on induction.
To be fair, it's good stuff in places, and frequently relevant, but can you retain it? Who wants to read a several hundred page long list of tips?
In terms of theory, balance and scientific worth a far better book, for my money, is by Alessi and Trollip.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent e-learning overview
Comment: I am a corporate trainer who seeks to convert much of his highly successful classroom-based training to the Web. This book was EXACTLY what I was looking for and met my very demanding criteria for a 'how-to' book.
It succeeds in that it:
1. Takes the reader step by step by step through all of the big-picture considerations (and several subtle but important nuances) one must undertake to create an e-learning program from scratch, or convert an existing training program to one that can work on the Web
2. Is written clearly, concisely and simply - - an absolute rarity in a world of technology handbooks that are muddled and/or require the reader to already have a Ph.D. in computer science to understand.
3. Introduced me to small and large ideas that I had not considered but that made perfectly common sense when I thought about them.
This book made me a disciple of William Horton, and gave me the confidence that if I wanted to, I could transform my classroom training to the Web yet avoid a lot of errors I would have committed had I not read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great, Great Book
Comment: Most of the book covering e-learning are too much based on northamerican politics and standards since that's the reality for authors but, Horton's ideas and guidelines can be applied virtually in any country. He english is very to understand, he does not use word taken from slangs, or any "strange" word.
Chapter Organization is very good, every chapter can be read as whole unit, without going backward and forward reading other chapters because ideas are completely developed within a chapter.
Horton, is my fav. author on e-learning topics.
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Title: E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age by Marc J. Rosenberg ISBN: 0071362681 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 26 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: e-Learning and the Science of Instruction : Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning by Ruth Colvin Clark, Richard E. Mayer ISBN: 0787960519 Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Multimedia-Based Instructional Design : Computer-Based Training, Web-Based Training, and Distance Learning by William W. Lee, Diana L. Owens ISBN: 0787951595 Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $62.00 |
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Title: 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups : Essentials of Web-Based Education by Donald E. Hanna, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Simone Conceicao-Runlee ISBN: 189185934X Publisher: Atwood Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Evaluating E-Learning by William Horton ISBN: 1562863002 Publisher: American Society for Training & Development Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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