©
Home | About Us | Contact Us

Casting the Net Over Global Learning

List Price: $17.95
Author: Dr. Bernard J. Luskin
ISBN: 1-58000-106-8
Pages: 226
 
 
larger Image
Book Description

Casting the Net Over Global Learning presents an overview of what is happening now in education and corporate training to provide a basis for executives, trainers, investors, and administrators and learners to make intelligent choices for the future. This book analyzes trends in K-12, higher, adult higher, and corporate education in the context of new literacies, the emerging learning psychologies, the Internet, and workforce training and education. It amplifies and explains key trends central to comprehensive global development of new dimensions in workforce training, corporate education, and e-learning.

There are hundreds of examples presented in this book, including companies, projects, and people. Obviously, the world is changing, especially now after the terrorism, the new war, the recession, and the economy. The examples are relevant and predictive and the book explains and documenting trends. It is designed to create perspective, historical memory, a frame of reference and an understanding of global education trends central to the success of individuals and companies.

Editorial Review
“I have been deeply involved with the Internet and learning since its infancy. This book provides fresh insights about what drives the new global learning world, and most importantly, where it is going.”
-Dr. David Leveille
Chief Policy Analyst for Education,
State of California

"Casting The Net Over Global Learning by Bernard J. Luskin (Director of the Media Studies and Community College Leadership Programs) is a complete, contemporary instructional guide and information resource, filled from cover to cover with the latest global strategies for educating and training a workforce for the purpose of set setting any business apart in an increasingly this increasingly competitive and interlocking corporate world. Individual chapters address making the most of the Internet as an educational tool, the emerging phenomenon of the Corporate University, tailoring one's strategies for the Age of Communication, and much, much more. Casting The Net Over Global Learning is unique and commended resource for the twenty-first century."
-Midwest Book Review