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Summary: Look Elsewhere, and Save Your Money
Review: Here is the entire book, quickly summed up:* Fill in these many, many "worksheet pages" * Work with experienced persons to get experience * Fill out some more checklist worksheets * Thanks for your money PLEASE do yourself a favor, and get a WBT book in which the author acutally is a Subject Matter Expert, and not someone out to take your money and provide obvious advice.
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Summary: Look Elsewhere, and Save Your Money
Review: Here is the entire book, quickly summed up: * Fill in these many, many "worksheet pages" * Work with experienced persons to get experience * Fill out some more checklist worksheets * Thanks for your money PLEASE do yourself a favor, and get a WBT book in which the author acutally is a Subject Matter Expert, and not someone out to take your money and provide obvious advice.
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Summary: This book is an introductory guide
Review: I have been rather late looking at the reviews here. Although I have had many very positive reviews I was very sorry to see that my book failed to meet the expectations of a few readers. I want to stress that it is a guide for new training designers and assumes no background in instructional design. If you already are an expert in Instructional Design and are looking for some advanced stuff on web-based training then this book is not for you. However if you want to know how to design effective self-directed and distance learning programs then this is for you. The principles of performance focused training design hold true for any delivery method. I have still not designed a web-site but I have been commissioned by one of the biggest global companies to design a new approach to Web-based training because "everyone hates our WBT". The principles I have used are the ones in this book. The customer is delighted with the fresh, performance focused, interactive approach to WBL that they are now implementing. Funnily enough the old web-sites were very colourful, clear and well designed but they missed the fundamental point that they did not link to performance and they were mainly about knowledge. The book is a practical guide for new designers.
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Summary: Look Elsewhere, and Save Your Money
Review: This 300+ page book could easily have been 150 pages. Furthermore, he spends entirely too much time in the evaluation process. If you're looking to jump into web-based training design, this book's not for you. Too much preliminary analysis chocked full of theory from basic educational classes. The first 200 pages are a repeat of what I learned in educational classes for a degree in training and technological education. If you're a beginner, then this book could give you an overview of the complete thought process of deciding whether or not you need training. In fact, he almost tries to talk you out of training, but instead to try other alternatives first. If you've already made your mind up and need an expert book on the subject, this book is NOT for you. He readily admits that he has never done WBT!?! Designed more for academia and as a student workbook. I was looking more for a book that would detail the pro's and con's of WBT and distance learning from an expert doing it. It isn't until page 252 of 350+ that he begins talking about WBT (never mind he hasn't done it). He then spends less than 50 pages on it. Disregard all of the Web-based hype that you read on the back cover and in the book synthesis from the publisher.
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Summary: Should be Titled "Evaluating the need for Training"
Review: This 300+ page book could easily have been 150 pages. Furthermore, he spends entirely too much time in the evaluation process. If you're looking to jump into web-based training design, this book's not for you. Too much preliminary analysis chocked full of theory from basic educational classes. The first 200 pages are a repeat of what I learned in educational classes for a degree in training and technological education. If you're a beginner, then this book could give you an overview of the complete thought process of deciding whether or not you need training. In fact, he almost tries to talk you out of training, but instead to try other alternatives first. If you've already made your mind up and need an expert book on the subject, this book is NOT for you. He readily admits that he has never done WBT!?! Designed more for academia and as a student workbook. I was looking more for a book that would detail the pro's and con's of WBT and distance learning from an expert doing it. It isn't until page 252 of 350+ that he begins talking about WBT (never mind he hasn't done it). He then spends less than 50 pages on it. Disregard all of the Web-based hype that you read on the back cover and in the book synthesis from the publisher.
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Summary: Less useful than most books on this subject
Review: This book is a disappointment. The actual content is slim. The book has lots of white space, lots of self tests for readers, lots of blank charts for the reader to fill in as he or she plans a course, lots of bulleted "to do" lists. But it provides virtually no supporting information for any of its points or suggestions and offers no sense that Dl is actually a pretty complicated subject. In addition, it offers no references, bibliographical material, or any other support for the readers' continued learning.
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Summary: Useful as a supplemental workbook, but not on its' own
Review: This book may be useful as a workbook for those who need to thoroughly outline a project they're doing(if they already know something about Web-Based Training). Better yet, teachers of WBT/CBT or Instructional Design might use it as a workbook for student projects. It is not, however, a good place to learn about WBT--not on its' own. A more comprehensive primary text is a necessity.
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Summary: A Big Disappointment
Review: Too fluffy - Not enough meaningful conten
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