Emerging Technologies and Learning and Development
Published on 3. July 2009
48 pages
978-1-84855-831-1 (ISBN)
Description
This e-book explores the increasing influence of emerging technologies on the world on learning and development. Organizations can now access a multitude of different tools that will enable them to deliver far more flexible and individually relevant offerings to learners. There is now a new generation who have been "e;born digital"e;; who will have high expectations of the world of work as they enter it for the first time and, as L&D professionals, we need to be ready. This e-book will provide useful "e;maps"e; and "e;phrase books"e; to allow you to navigate some of these new territories.
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Content
- Cover
- Table of contents
- Editorial
- Getting a grip on the problem: learning through computer haptics
- Learning on the move: how m-learning could transform training and development
- Serious games: learning for the igeneration
- Reframing practice: creating social learning networks
- Using wikis for organizational learning: functional and psycho-social principles
- When e-learning is not enough
- Listen to the learners
- From an e-storm to calmer waters?
- Taking advantage of e-learning's new tricks
- Interview with Terence Brake
- What's on the web
- Abstracts
- Suggested reading
- Diary
