By Susan J. Marks S mall businesses are joining corporate America and clicking onto computer-based training. It's a technology that even an entrepreneur with a PC can tap into without worrying about in-house IT staff and support. You can do it when you are ready to learn. You can do it at the pace that you want to do it instead of at the pace that the teacher wants to teach. You can train in your own home.
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CBT on CD-ROM is nothing new for the government and large corporations or associations, says Klososky. Another development, adds Klososky, is a blending of CBT with marketing. People are saying, 'OK, we would like to deliver training to our customers, to our distributors, our VARs. So what I want is a Web site that tells all about our product. Benson has been involved in CBT programming and design for the past nine years.