Big Learning Data
Will be published approx. on 9. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-56286-909-0 (ISBN)
Description
Welcome to the big data revolution. In today's wired world, we interact with millions of pieces of information every day. Capturing that information and making sense of it is the revolutionary impact of big data on business - and on learning.
Thought leader Elliott Masie and Learning CONSORTIUM Members bring a powerful new book to the T&D profession. They provide a SWOT analysis of big data and implications for learning and development professionals. Big learning data is at your fingertips. You need to know why it matters.
Shows practitioners where to start with big learning data.
Explains the risks that come with big data.
Shows how to solve problems using the new perspectives and measurement support that big learning data provides.
Thought leader Elliott Masie and Learning CONSORTIUM Members bring a powerful new book to the T&D profession. They provide a SWOT analysis of big data and implications for learning and development professionals. Big learning data is at your fingertips. You need to know why it matters.
Shows practitioners where to start with big learning data.
Explains the risks that come with big data.
Shows how to solve problems using the new perspectives and measurement support that big learning data provides.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
United States
Publishing group
American Society for Training & Development
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 152 mm
Width: 228 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-56286-909-0 (9781562869090)
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Person
Elliott Masie is a provocative, engaging, and entertaining futurist, analyst, and speaker. He enjoys topics related to learning, technology, data, and workplace performance. Elliott has varied feelings about big data; he is simultaneously intrigued, challenged, excited, and concerned about how big data will be experienced by employees, citizens, and organizations. He is the editor of Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie, an Internet newsletter read by more than 52,000 business executives worldwide, and is a regular columnist in several publications. He hosts an annual learning conference each fall, bringing together thousands of learning professionals to benchmark and collaborate on the rapidly changing world of learning and workplace performance.For almost four decades, Elliott's focus has been the evolution of learning, including the use of technology for knowledge, learning, and collaboration throughout organizations. He is acknowledged as the first analyst to use the term e-learning in the 1990s, and he has been on the forefront of social, mobile, and video-based learning experiments.