Course Description

This course aims to provide necessary skills and background in construction and implementation criteria and procedures for selection and evaluation of web-based training materials; synthesis of research and resources in the field. The course also underlines major steps and techniques used in design, development and evaluation of web-based training environments. Such contemporary issues as e-learning and WBT for human resource development and professional development also receive a considerable attention in this course.

Course Objectives

• Provide an understanding of historical background and development of e-learning components.
• Provide an insight to common formats used in WBT.
• Provide necessary skills and practice in developing instructional scenarios and design framework to be based for WBT.
• Provide an understanding of criteria used in choosing type of WBT.
• Underline the main principles of learning as applied to WBT.
• Provide an analytical perspective for formative and summative criteria used in evaluation of e-learning environments.
• Provide necessary skills and practice in developing and applying criteria used for evaluation of e-learning.
• Provide a general framework to make a use of WBT for human resource development.