Most importantly, these environments can include large libraries of stories, on video, told by experts in particular fields. The student can hear these stories, and learn from them, at just the moment in their own work when they most need help. The programs should be designed around particular learning goals of students, creating scenarios where students are motivated to accomplish tasks that lead to successfully attaining the goals in question. Such goal based scenarios can be used for any subject matter, for any age student, in schools or in business. These programs change what students are learning as well as how they are learning.
Students learn how to actually do things rather than simply memorizing isolated factual material.
Director of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology in the College of Education, University of South Florida where she is also an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology. These and other key questions facing developers and managers contemplating the use of training programs online will be examined. We will explore what information is available on this topic and discuss the need for more research studies in this area to help us develop a better understanding of how and why interactive training and learning works. Corporations world-wide are rethinking traditional approaches to training and learning. Training organizations and job functions are being transformed by the internet and corporate intranets.