Individual Preferences in e-Learning

Howard Hills

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780566084560
• eBook ISBN: 9781317117155
• Topic: Betriebswirtschaft
• Subtopic: Business allgemein

Trainers and educators ask: 'What personality types do best at e-learning; who really likes e-learning?' Better that they should ask: 'How can we make e-learning more appealing to more people?' E-learning is here to stay in the same way that the Internet is here to stay. The classroom, as a mass education tool, was an invention of the industrial age and we have made good use of it. E-learning is an invention of the information age but we have yet to properly realise its potential. Some of the steam has gone out of e-learning. Organizations have experienced problems with technology, variable content, poor course take-up and even greater drop-out. The problem is that what appeals to the organization, a mass training and development medium that can be used to train everyone at once, is at odds with - or at least ignorant of - the learning needs of the individual. Individual Preferences in e-Learning focuses on the process of e-learning, with the emphasis on learning and individual differences. With a firm rooting in previous research, in particular the author's in-depth knowledge of the MBTIâ"¢ functions, this book shows you how to make e-learning work for different personality types.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• 1 Perspectives on Learning
• 2 Internet Growth and the Impact on Learning
• 3 The Case Against e-Learning
• 4 Observing Learners
• 5 Personality and Learning
• 6 Using Personality in e-Learning Choices
• 7 From Theory to Practice
• References and Other Reading
• Index