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Summary: An indispensable roadmap
Review: Multimedia-Based Instructional Design is a roadmap, a AAA TripTik?, to guide you on the complex journey from assessing the need for media-based instruction to the final evaluation and analysis of your results.This book provides the plan and the tools to monitor the plan. It tells you what you need to do and strategies you may want to try. But it does not teach you step by step how to perform the work needed along the way. Multimedia development requires a multi-talented team, spanning a variety of disciplines-way beyond the scope of this book. You, as the project manager, are responsible for putting the plan into action, obtaining the necessary talent, supervising the production, and evaluating the results. The chapters are short, simply written, and easily digested. The layout is easy to read, with large text and generous line spacing. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Microsoft Word versions of all the forms, checklists, and instructions mentioned in the text-plus Web-based tools to help you formulate objectives and another to help you choose the type of media appropriate for your project. If you or your training department is planning your first foray beyond the instructor-led live classroom, Multimedia-Based Instructional Design will help you prepare a cogent plan, point out the potential pitfalls, and provide insight based on over 40 years of the authors' combined experience.
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Summary: An indispensable roadmap
Review: Multimedia-Based Instructional Design is a roadmap, a AAA TripTik®, to guide you on the complex journey from assessing the need for media-based instruction to the final evaluation and analysis of your results. This book provides the plan and the tools to monitor the plan. It tells you what you need to do and strategies you may want to try. But it does not teach you step by step how to perform the work needed along the way. Multimedia development requires a multi-talented team, spanning a variety of disciplines-way beyond the scope of this book. You, as the project manager, are responsible for putting the plan into action, obtaining the necessary talent, supervising the production, and evaluating the results. The chapters are short, simply written, and easily digested. The layout is easy to read, with large text and generous line spacing. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Microsoft Word versions of all the forms, checklists, and instructions mentioned in the text-plus Web-based tools to help you formulate objectives and another to help you choose the type of media appropriate for your project. If you or your training department is planning your first foray beyond the instructor-led live classroom, Multimedia-Based Instructional Design will help you prepare a cogent plan, point out the potential pitfalls, and provide insight based on over 40 years of the authors' combined experience.
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Summary: One Stop Reference for Technology-Assisted Learning
Review: Multimedia-based Instructional Design is not simply a great handbook for course developers. Lee and Owens have written a book that helps shift the emphasis in organizations from training (content mastery in orientation) to learning (job role in orientation). They have done this by directing the reader's attention to short, action oriented chapters. The reader is not forced to plow through exhaustive summaries of the body of knowledge, but is treated to concise summaries of theory and research. In each chapter, the authors have been careful to outline a sequence of action and provide the reader with forms, checklists and templates. It captures the leading edge in thinking so well that I've purchased enough copies to supply every professional on our staff with a personal copy along with the comment that "there is no sense reinventing the wheel; the blueprint is here."
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Summary: Terrific guide
Review: Overly generous interline spacing has made a large book out of what is a effectively a small book. Much of the material in the book struck me as on the edge of redundant and out of touch with emerging developments. Many of the references are very dated (seventies and eighties material) and some are simply obscure. The book just isn't convincingly up to date. The emphasis on form filling will appeal to all those types who like to run software projects by form filling. There is no creative thrust to this book and the complimentary technology angles are weak. The CD contained nothing that I hadn't been aware of in other modes or hadn't created with MS Office components. It is largely an irrelevancy. For corporate types who want to roll out loads of flannel about elearning project management, this book may be a gem. For developers however, I would recommend Allessi and Trollip as a much superior text. Personally speaking, this book was not a good value purchase by me.
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Summary: Doesn't seem contemporary
Review: Overly generous interline spacing has made a large book out of what is a effectively a small book. Much of the material in the book struck me as on the edge of redundant and out of touch with emerging developments. Many of the references are very dated (seventies and eighties material) and some are simply obscure. The book just isn't convincingly up to date. The emphasis on form filling will appeal to all those types who like to run software projects by form filling. There is no creative thrust to this book and the complimentary technology angles are weak. The CD contained nothing that I hadn't been aware of in other modes or hadn't created with MS Office components. It is largely an irrelevancy. For corporate types who want to roll out loads of flannel about elearning project management, this book may be a gem. For developers however, I would recommend Allessi and Trollip as a much superior text. Personally speaking, this book was not a good value purchase by me.
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Summary: Long on Theory, Short on How-To
Review: This book appears to have been written by academics. It contains a great planning strategies but very little in the way of practical information about how to actually design multimedia instructional materials. The accompanying CD is weak, mostly text and a bunch of supplemental forms and planing document templates. It isn't worth the money if your looking for a "nuts and bolts" guide to design.
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Summary: Long on Theory, Short on How-To
Review: This book appears to have been written by academics. It contains a great planning strategies but very little in the way of practical information about how to actually design multimedia instructional materials. The accompanying CD is weak, mostly text and a bunch of supplemental forms and planing document templates. It isn't worth the money if your looking for a "nuts and bolts" guide to design.
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Summary: Practical model and checklist
Review: This book is excellent if your looking for a practical model and checklists for developing multi media based instruction. The model used, devides the development of a multi media instructional product into the following phases, each with their own checklists: Assessment/analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation. The checklists as well as other usefull documents are delivered on cd-rom in Word 2000 format, which makes it possible to adjust them according to your own desires. A little gem for instructional designers as well as organisations just starting with developing multi media based instruction!
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Summary: Very good tool for corporate learning
Review: This book was exactly what I was looking for. It gives detailed descriptions of how to develop multimedia training courses. I have purchased other books in the past that were based on theory and management techniques. This book will help you build your programs from the ground up.
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Summary: E-Learning Manager
Review: This is a great book. It presents the instructional design methodology clearly and concisely and links these to e-learning development. It is obvious that the authors do this for a living and write from first hand experience.
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