Corporate software training: is Web-based training as effective as instructor-led training?

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication - Tập 45 Số 3 - Trang 170-186 - 2002
N.W. Coppola1, R. Myre2
1Humanities and Social Sciences Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA
2Consumer Network Services Division, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Morris Plains, NJ, USA

Tóm tắt

Web-based training has been both acclaimed as a self-paced, consistent, stand-alone alternative to traditional instructor-led training and disparaged for its high development costs and dearth of qualified trainers. Critics especially question its effectiveness. This case study tests the effectiveness of a stand-alone Web-based training program and compares the results to that of an identical instructor-led course. The course provides highly task-oriented instruction for a computer software package and was developed using a proven instructional design methodology. The data from this study show that Web-based training is as effective as instructor-led training for stand-alone software application training in a corporation.

Từ khóa

#Computer aided instruction #Costs #Application software #Data systems #Distributed computing #Testing #Software packages #Design methodology #Consumer electronics #Large-scale systems

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