e-Learning 2.0: Proven Practices and Emerging Technologies to Achieve Real Results

By Anita Rosen

When executed well, e-learning is a powerful way for organizations to save money while providing the kind of up-to-date training and information that will help employees perform better and more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814410731
• ISBN13: 9780814410738
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Very User-Friendly Book on e-Learning

Hands-down this is the best book I've come across on e-Learning!! It provided me with the necessary foundation to conduct an intelligent conversation on this topic. What I particularly appreciated was the pragmatic nature of the book. In and of themselves, the checklists at the end of each chapter justify the purchase of this book.

Methodical overview of e-learning practices

Training consultant Anita Rosen designed her book to resemble one of the "asynchronous e-learning courses" she describes within its pages. Her presentation on e-learning is exceptionally clear and is filled with very strong content. Rosen explains that you can't make many of the decisions involved in developing e-learning courses too far in advance, because technology is changing so quickly and new tools are emerging constantly. That said, she does a great job of methodically covering the major aspects of e-learning. She explains current principles and practices, and sums them up at the end of the book in a guide for "subject matter experts" who design e-learning courses. getAbstract recommends this book to corporate trainers, academic distance-learning developers, and anyone else who makes decisions about training.

This book cuts through the list of what's possible via eLearning & highlights tools & techniques

I liked this book. Maybe because I am a fan of the Internet being used as a teaching tool. Maybe it is because I see so much potential the Internet has to offer for people who want to sell information and run infopreneur companies. Maybe it is because I thought the book was well organized and fairly well written. Yes, there were lots of typos, misspellings, & grammar errors - and it would have been nice if the publisher's editors could have cleaned much of that up. But the substance and content of the book is wonderful. The author says she wrote this book not to list the different options that are available for use on the Internet to provide company training programs, school courses, consultants' seminars & workshops, and other tutorial and coaching services. This book was written in order to cut through the long list of what is possible and to highlight the tools and techniques that have thus far proven to be successful. I liked the way the author organized her chapters. Each chapter started with a sidebar that told us what we'd learn by reading the chapter. And at the end of each chapter there was a meaningful checklist that summarized what the chapter was all about. By reading the chapter intros and checklists first it was a breeze flying through the book from cover to cover. As a result, the typos did not bother me all that much. 4 stars!

Great information

Had I Read Anita Rosen's book years ago, I would have saved my organization a lot of money and myself a lot of time. My big walk away is that I spend too much time focusing on technologies instead of figuring out what my goals are and aligning my goals to my stakeholder's goals. Sure, I recognize the importance of working with my SMEs. I just did not write my goals and their goals down in a way that was measurable and actionable. Rosen, has done a great job explaining that when you create an effective e-Learning course strategy you can use it to keep your project focused and get corporate buy-in. She made the technology section interesting and engaging without being overly technological. I found it helpful that she explains each of the technologies, highlights what works for e-Learning and what doesn't work. Then she discusses how by staying focused on your goals you can use technology to achieve your goals. What really brought things home for me was her use of real life case studies that highlight what some companies have done to successfully implement their e-Learning projects.

E-Learning 2.0

In this wide-ranging exploration of how to use new technologies to make training work over the web, Anita Rosen looks at basic business principles and new technologies and discusses how they can be applied to e-Learning. It's obvious she comes from a management and project management background, has created many business plans, and given many management presentations. She uses her management eye to provide focused recommendations of how to set goals, create an ROI and get buy in. She applies these concepts to the specific needs of eLearning. What I found really helpful was when she explained that you can't create an effective classroom experience online, so don't bother trying. It's much better to create a good web experience. Then she explains, in a real nut-and-bolts way, what a good web experience looks like and how to effectively create it. Best of all she backs it up with real field tests performed at real companies. All in all, it's a fast paced, interesting read that explains business and technology without getting preachy or to techy.