Distance Training: How Innovative Organizations are Using Technology to Maximize Learning and Meet Business Objectives

Introduction.

Organizational Technology and Its Impact on Distance Training (D.Schreiber).

Conceptual Frameworks in Distance Training and Education (Z.Berge).

Instructional Design of Distance Training (D. Screiber).

DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION AND INCREASING KNOWLEDGE.

Building Customer Relations: Web-Based Training for the HomeImprovement Industry.

Increasing Employee Knowledge and Understanding of OperationalSystems: Integrating Multiple Technologies at NYNEX (B.Howard).

Disseminating Time-Sensitive Information: Using InteractiveDistance Learning to Deliver Training and Education in the AmericanRed Cross Biomedical Services (L. Klueter & E. Kalweit).

Disseminating Time- and Regualtion-Sensitive Information: OnlineTraining Seminars at Mortgage Bankers Association of America (T.Monahan).

Graduate Programs at a Distance: A Partnership Between theCalifornia Department of Rehabilitation and San Diego StateUniversity (M. Warn, et al.).

BUILDING SKILLS (TECHNICAL AND CRITICAL THINKING).

Reskilling Employees for Competitve Advantage: Reinventing Learningat Unisys Corporation.

Delivering Technical Training to Advance Mechanical Skills:Interactive Video Teletraining in the Federal AviationAdministration (L. Payneand & H. Payne).

Delivering Clinical- Based Training in a Public Health Setting (J.Place, et al.).

Skills-Based Distance Training for a Global Environment: Malaysia'sVirtual University (M. Ress & P. Sonberg).

The Value of Building Skills with Online Technology: OnlineTraining Costs and Evaluation at the Texas Natural ResourceConservation Commission (S. Walker).

Building Intranet Courseware Using Multidisciplinary Teams: TheStory of Quantum Solutions, Inc. and Colombia/
HCA Healthcare Corporation (A. Yakimivicz).

CHANGING ATTITUDES AND ENHANCING MOTIVATION.

Eliciting Community Beliefs and Changing Attitudes ThroughEducation: Innovative Distance Learning at the Colombus Center (R.Bento, et al.).

Measuring attitudes to Assess Trainig: The Interactive DistanceLearning Group Looks at Learning and Transfer from SatelliteTraining (J. Dessinger, et al.).

Unanticipated Attitudianl Cahnge: The Progression Toward Self-Directed Distance Training at H.B. Zachry (L. Dooley, etal.).

Utilizing Telelearning as a Strategic Media Choice to EnhanceExecutive Development and Affect Organizational Perspective: TheU.S. Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) (J. Suchan &A. Crawford).

Conclusion.

Best Practices of Distance Training (D. Schreiber).