On-Demand Learning: Training in the New Millennium by Darin E. Hartley

By Darin E. Hartley

The customary on-demand companies which are on hand in different walks of lifestyles needs to be tailored to the schooling and studying box if education departments are to achieve success within the new millennium. As our affinity for expertise and on-demand provider and delight grows, this tradition will permeate itself in different elements of lifestyles. particularly, beginners will call for equivalent strength for his or her own improvement. education and improvement practitioners needs to take motion now to supply rookies with what they'll quickly wish usually - On-Demand Learning!This publication offers managers, human source experts, and coaching body of workers with a forewarning of the upcoming studying revolution besides principles for constructing new studying instruments to fulfill the call for for self-service studying. It features a finished profile of the on-demand learner and a record for motion for purveyors of studying. It identifies suggestions to maximise the effectiveness of on-demand studying strategies and gives how you can fit rookies with ideas that paintings. it is going to additionally educate you the way to increase on-demand studying strategies in a number of media to facilitate studying within the electronic age.

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Contrast this with today’s television environments. Pick up your remote and tune into CNBC™ around lunchtime. The viewing area is dissected by text, scrolling figures in a variety of colors, charts, graphics, and don’t forget the omnipresent translucent network icon. Somewhere in one of the corners of the screen you will see an analyst talking. The same is true of QVC and many other stations as well. There is a veritable information overload on the television twenty-four hours a day. Fifteen years ago, people would have screamed about a visual assault like this.

The On-Demand Learner 23 Μυλτιτασκινγ ανδ Μυλτιλεαρνινγ Bill Gates said, “Business is going to change more in the next ten years than it has in the last fifty” (Gates, p. xiii). This means that the rate of change in the business arena is going to increase much more than it has in the past half-century. New products are rolling out faster, business relationships and agreements are made (and broken) quicker, and working folks can’t just keep up with their jobs, because their entire business world is evolving, too.

When you use assessments, you must have a good reason to create and use them. The assessment items should be based on learning objectives that are tied to necessary job performance. And again, the results of the assessments should not be used in a punitive nature. That is, the results of a test should not be used as the basis of not hiring or firing someone, increasing someone’s pay, or lowering a performance rating. The only exception to this rule is if a local, state, or federal requirement has deemed a certification necessary.

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