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Beyond E-Learning
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By Marc J. Rosenberg
Overview
• © 2006 by John Wiley &
Son Inc.
• www.astd.org
The book begins with a 3. Justifying the expense The beginning of the book also
• www.amazon.com discussion of five realities of learning is no longer includes five lessons
that are fundamentally a cakewalk. Rosenberg has learned through
changing how learning his many years in the field.
professionals should think 4. Organizational learning
about the future. and performance are Lessons Learned:
facilitated through
These lists provide an strategies and 1. We have overrelied on
excellent foundation for the techniques that go far technology.
rest of his work. beyond training
2. We have spent too much
1. Technology-based 5. The workplace has time in the training center.
learning is here to stay. fundamentally
changed. 3. We have often spoken a
2. Believing that face-to- foreign language.
face classroom training
is going away is both 4. We tend to think this is
misguided and wrong. easy.
A highly regarded thought leader and much-sought-after presenter, Dr. Rosenberg has
spoken at The White House and keynoted at numerous professional and business
conferences. He has authored more than 40 articles and book chapters, and is a
frequently quoted expert in major business and trade publications, including HR
Magazine, Investor’s Business Daily, Knowledge Management Magazine, Training,
Training and Development, E-Learning, Online Learning, Learning Circuits, Context, Fast
Company, Sales and Marketing Management, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and
CFO Magazine. Marc has also been featured on CIO Radio (a service of CIO
Magazine). He is a past president of the International Society for Performance
Improvement (ISPI); a founding editorial board member of Performance Improvement
Quarterly; co-editor of ISPI’s Performance Technology: Success Stories, and a
contributing author to the Handbook of Human Performance Technology, as well as the
American Society for Training and Development’s (ASTD) Training and Development
Handbook (4th edition), Models for Human Performance Improvement, and the 2002
ASTD E-Learning Handbook.
Dr. Rosenberg holds a Ph.D. in instructional design, plus degrees in communications and
marketing. He also holds the Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) designation from
ISPI, reflective of his experience and expertise in the field of organizational performance
improvement, and is an elected member of his local community's Board of Education.
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