eFormation

Available since 5 September 2000 from Editions Dunod in french and spanish

You can order it directly from:

• Amazon.com
• Eyrolles

Detail of contents :

Part 1 - Training reinvented :
Market, Players, Business models

• Chapter 1 - Les américains font la course en tête
  • America's first
  • A major challenge
    • Traditional methods and supports are on the wane
    • Development of multimedia supports,
    • Increased budgets devoted to new technologies
    • Entrepreneurial minds at work
  • o The explosion of business on the Internet
    • Prospects and already a reality
    • Equipment
    • The web
    • Perverse effects
    • The web, technologies and training
• Chapter 2 - Europe and France join the fray
  • Recent European awareness
    • A promising market
    • Burgeoning growth
  • Development of non-technical skills
  • France is in the throes of change
    • The current context
    • Technologies and the French market
• Chapter 3 - Three levers to guide e-training strategy
  • Create poles of performance through partnerships
  • Move towards an editorial and industrial point of view of training
    • The 5M theory
  • Master the impact of new arrivals
    • The map of new arrivals in the training marketn
    • e-training, tool for differentiating marketing of internet sites
• Chapter 4 - E-training Business Models
  • The developers of software solutions
  • e-training computer engineering companies: developer of made-to-measure content
  • Content suppliers
  • Virtual training centres
  • General training gateways
  • Free economic models
  • Onlineformapro
  • Qarbon.com

Part 2 - Changes for the company

• Chapter 5 - New frontiers
  • A technological opportunity without precedent
    • Training, communication, information at the service of performance
    • Group or individual?
    • Synchronous or asynchronous?
  • A new relation with technology
    • From resistance to familiarity
    • The dynamic of the video game
• Chapter 6 - A demand for profitability
  • A delicate measure of performance
    • The case of office automation
    • Individualised training in large numbers
    • Individualised training according to needs
  • An example of return on investment in the USA
  • A major French experience
• Chapter 7 - The key mechanisms of training : Web Based Training and the Virtual Class
  • Internet and Intranet : the two vectors of e-training
  • Even a virtual network, is firstly a matter of relations…
  • Universality and simplicity
  • Cooperation and sharing
  • Web Based Training
    • The 3 components of a training mechanism
    • Interoperability, flexibility and interactivity
    • Choose an E-training platform
    • Panorama of web based training platforms
  • Build a virtual e-training campus on the Intranet of your company
    • Structure of project life
    • Main stages of the project
    • The problem of standard pedagogical resources
    • The problem of distance animation resources
  • Choose your external virtual training centre

Part 3 - Consequences for training players

• Chapter 8 - The impact on design of training
  • o Contents : subject to break down
    • § Granularised contents
    • § Modular cursus
  • o Technologies : tools to combine for hybrid mechanisms
    • § Office automation training in the Total group
    • § The virtual campus of new educative playground technologies
• Chapter 9 - Alternative training, be more efficient
  • Reengineering of training
    • A new balance: just-enough, just in time, right price
    • A permanent wheel of progress
  • Tools to master to reinvent training
    • Optimise planning of training
    • Analyse and design multi-support training
    • Create tutorials for your IT applications
    • Set up an on-line evaluation system
• Chapter 10 - The changes for training players?
• o A training manager with extended missions
  • Change from a logic of operation to one of investment
  • Improve your level of dialogue with IT
  • Build up your capacity to manage multi-skilled teams
  • Unite distance and physical presence in an optimised training system
  • Become the motor of knowledge management
• Trainers and their changing line of business
  • More towards design and away from classroom animation
  • Build a course on line
  • Master the tutoring function
  • Animate virtual class mechanisms
• New trades to be created or integrated in the teams
  • Head of a virtual university
  • Head of the online training development project
  • Pedagogical designer in e-training
• The implication of management
• And the trainee in all this?
  • Concentrated on the trainee
  • A better trained trainee?
  • What risks ?
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Bibliography