How to keep employee training and education programs well-timed and available is a big issue for corporate America today. “Training is no good if it's not current," stresses Jonathan Graf, senior engineer in the AMR Training Group, World Tutor Division, Dallas, which trains American Airlines employees. This particular reason is why Graff and others in the corporate world as well as the education world are exploring the idea of individual multimedia programs with internet technology for web-based employee training and educational learning.
Today, companies are taking three approaches to Internet-based training, says Peder Jacobsen, a partner and vice president with Tobin Erdmann & Jacobsen in Minneapolis, a communications company that creates custom training programs for the Fortune 500. The first approach is a CD-ROM program running an individual’s desktop but retrieved through a Web browser. The second approach is internet-only training programs. The third approach is a combination of the two, which involves placing vibrant data on the server and high-bandwidth material on CD-ROM. Users log on as they normally would, but information is visibly recovered from both the CD and the server. While the future of Web-based training looks bright, it is in an embryonic stage says Ellen Julian, manager for IT training and education research at International Data Corp., Framingham, Mass.
The positive aspects of using internet based training comes from how effective the transmission of information is for the future employees and students. How much are they learning and how easy is it for them to manipulate the media in order to offer further learning? It is also a cost effective way to train a number of people at the same time.
The negative sides that come with using only the CD-ROM is that it does not have the ability to be constantly updated. Unless users are given a new CD the information will always stay the same. This could be bad for kids in school and university students because having some old information could be unreliable, it might have been proven wrong, or it might have changed just a bit. If employers and teachers are using the internet, it is also feared that important company information can be seen by other viewers that are not involved.
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9 comments:
Hello group five:) Well, I wish there was a title for your blog...I couldn't even tell if you had the multimedia article up yet...you might want to go back and put a title in. Plus the article is a little short. You should have used bullets and more paragraphs to break important information up. One thing I enjoyed was the positive and negative info. on the internet based training multimedia.---Lindsay Boyer
Well I am not sure of how I feel about this blog, because I really didn't read anything that said web-based multimedia or even animation. There wasn't a title so I had to guess that I was reading the blog. I too like Lindsay, liked the positive and negative information.
I thought it was interesting to see how multimedia was being used in classrooms and also out in other areas. I would have liked to see more about the classroom side though. The positive and negative points were good and I also liked the quote from IT training and education research at International Data Corp.
Great work on discussing the uses of multimedia in the real world. I wish you would have compared the use in the real world with the applications in the classroom. A little more organization in the article would have been helpful
I think that the blog needed a little more work before it was published. I did not see a title, also, the information provided did not seem to answer the topic that we had this week. You seem to stray from staying in the classroom. Maybe if you had used the real world application and applied it to how teachers could have used it in the classroom, that would have made a good blog!
I agree with the others, that it was a little all over the place. I liked how you tried to incorporate quotes from professioals and it was interesting to see what certain companies are doing to educate their employees.
But it would have been nice to see a little more about how a teacher in a school could use this tool (as opposed to furthering employees' education...).
Good job team 5, It looked like you had a good article, but the summary was a tid bit lacking, also like lindsay said, no title haha. but over all good job.
I think that there should have been a title to your blog. It kind of just does right into text; which could be confusing to someone reading this blog who wasnt involved in our class. It was interesting to see how the world outside of classrooms use multimedia, but you should really be focusing on the classroom. But I do like how you talked about the negative and positive aspects.
Hey group five,
I found it difficult to really get into your article, mainly because you didn't have a title explaining what your article was discussing. I did however enjoy how you discussed both sides, making positive and negative points.
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