Tailored Learning: Designing the Blend That Fits

Preface

Before the advent of broadband wireless access, streaming media, and many other now-familiar technologies, the word training meant the same thing to nearly everyone. Training conjured up visions of flipcharts; marker boards; tables set up in rows; participant guides; textbooks; completion certificates; and often, day after day of classes in distant hotel conference rooms. Tailored Learning: Designing the Blend That Fits addresses today’s completely changed training realities in a unique way.

Throughout this book, you will be offered a “fly-on-the-wall” perspective of a training consultancy (of which you are a valuable member) that has been tasked with redesigning a traditional, classroom-based new hire sales training program and presenting ...