E-Learning White Papers

Our E-Learning white papers can help you make sense of the e-learning market and provide access to industry insights and data, ASTD presents e-learning white papers from investment firms, market research companies, and training suppliers.

The e-Learning Design Challenge: Technology, Models and Design Principles
David Huffaker, a PhD student in Media, Technology and Society at Northwestern University

Shares his insights based on his coursework and his professional experience as a designer and web developer.

Blended Learning for Compliance Training Success
Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D., Institute for Interactive Technologies
Discusses training in the compliance industry from a blended learning perspective.

eLearning: A Key Strategy for Maximizing Human Capital in the Knowledge Economy
PrimeLearning.com
Discusses the benefits of elearning as a delivery method to help support cultures of continuous learning. Explains why companies should consider e-learning and gives pointers on choosing an e-learning system.

A Systematic Approach to Media Selection
William W. Lee and Diana Owens, TTC Training Technology Consultants
Presents a Media Analysis Model composed of four components, Organizational Assessment, Information Structure, Media Selection, and Cost Analysis. Looks at the systemic, performance and training issues associated with each component. Contains an Information Structure/Objective Worksheet, Instructional/Student Factors Rating Sheet, Cost Factors Rating Sheet and Media Analysis Rating Sheet.

Corporate e-learning: exploring a new frontier.” 
WRHambrecht
Provides an overview of key aspects of the corporate e-learning market. Identifies key drivers, performs preliminary market segmentation, and estimates growth for market segments and product groups. Outlines major trends and winning strategies. States that corporate e-learning is one of the fastest growing and most promising markets in the education industry. Predicts the market size to double every year through 2003. Claims that soft skills training is growing twice as fast as the IT training market and should outstrip it by 2003.
Other e-learning papers from WRHambrecht

Interested in submitting a paper?

To qualify, your paper must: provide a substantive overview of e-learning practice or the market; be neutral in viewpoint (free from product or company endorsements); substantiate statements with data; identify opinion as such and not present opinions as fact; and credit all sources.
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