Delivering Digitally: Managing the Transition to the Knowledge Media

Citation

(2000), "Delivering Digitally: Managing the Transition to the Knowledge Media", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 24 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/jeit.2000.00324aae.003

Delivering Digitally: Managing the Transition to the Knowledge Media

Alistair Inglis, Peter Ling and Vera JoostenKogan Page1999ISBN 0 7494 2933 X210 pp.hardback£35.00

Keywords Technology training, Development

The technologies of the Internet, multimedia and other tele-communications have generated a rapid shift to the use of Web-based delivery for learning materials in the fields of education, training and commerce. As a result, however, managers and developers are often finding themselves having to make decisions without adequate back-ground information on the field or a full understanding of the management approaches to it. Addressing all the issues of digitally led education, this book not only gives an overview of developments in this important field, but also provides a comprehensive guide to the issues, principles, best practices and skills required to succeed in the new digital age.

The book is designed to be as accessible as possible. It is not necessary to read it from cover to cover. Instead, it is split into four largely autonomous parts:

1. 1.

   "Context";

2. 2.

   "Implementation";

3. 3.

   "Quality assurance"; and

4. 4.

   "The future".

Based on extensive research, without being academic in tone or content, Delivering Digitally offers a route map to successfully managing the implementation of electronically mediated learning programmes and systems.