Distance Learning Technologies: Issues, Trends and Opportunities - Softcover

Barney, Salomon Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878289802 ISBN 13: 9781878289803

Publisher: Igi Global, 1999

Synopsis

In today's technology-crazed environment, distance learning is touted as a cost-effective option for delivering employee training and higher education programs, such as bachelor's, master's and even doctoral degrees. Distance Learning Technologies: Issues, Trends and Opportunities provides readers with an in-depth understanding of distance learning and the technologies available for this innovative media of learning and instruction. It traces the development of distance learning from its history to suggestions of a solid strategic implementation plan to ensure its successful and effective deployment.

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About the Author

Linda K. Lau, Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) is a financial consultant associate with Salomon Smith Barney, Inc. in Richmond, VA. For the past five years, she was Assistant Professor and Discipline Coordinator for MIS in the School of Business and Economics at Longwood College, Farmville, VA. She was the author and coauthor of numerous articles and an ad-hoc reviewer for the Information Resources Management Journal and SAM Advanced Management Journal. Her name was also published in the Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 5th Edition (1998) and International Who's Who of Professionals for the Year 1997. Her past research interests include using Behavioral Anchored Rating Scales (BARS) for employee performance evaluations, developing Web pages, writing applets using Java programming language, and distance learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Igi Global
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1878289802
• ISBN 13: 9781878289803
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Lau Linda K.