ATD’s Foundations of Talent Development: Launching, Leveraging, and Leading Your Organization’s TD Effort

CHAPTER 13

Leverage Technology for Learning

As you may have gathered from reading the earlier chapters of this book, our profession has become more complex. Much complexity is due to the advances in technology that have occurred in the past 20 years. You need to be aware of the technologies your organization has, their capabilities, and how they all work together—or not. As you review your organization’s systems, you may find redundancies in some areas or places where systems should connect but don’t.

Jennifer Hofmann, a pioneer in the field of virtual classrooms and president of InSync Training, says, “Navigating modern learning design is tough, especially since so many terms sound alike.” Here’s her quick primer to help you visualize the big ...