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Lessons in Learning, e-Learning, and Training : Perspectives
and Guidance for the Enlightened Trainer
by Roger C. Schank
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Editorial Reviews
"Stories are the jewels of learning and Roger Schank is the prince of storytelling.
This collection of training stories is a must read!"
--Elliott Masie, founder, e-Learning CONSORTIUM
"Learning has become a strategic advantage in business over the last decade,
but in trying to ‘optimize’ that advantage we've sterilized
the process. In this book, Roger reminds us that teaching and learning
can be fun and effective. It's like having a long personal conversation
with Roger--it's fun, interesting, and illuminating."
--Tom Kelly, vice president, Cisco
"Roger Schank is a genius, his ideas are insightful, and provocative.
His latest book is a must read for those who want to stay at the leading
edge."
--Brandon Hall, lead researcher and CEO, Brandon-Hall.com
Product Description:
From Roger C. Schank—one of the most highly respected thinkers, writers,
and speakers in the training, learning, and e-learning community—comes
a compelling book of essays that explore the myriad issues related to challenges
faced by today’s instructional designers and trainers. The essays
offer a much-needed perspective on what trainers do, why they do it, and
how they do it. Lessons in Learning, e-Learning, and Training serves
as a barometer to the issues that often perplex trainers and helps to illuminate
three main points: what can and cannot be taught; how people think and
learn; and what technology can really effectively provide. In addition,
each essay is filled with practical guidance and includes a summary of
ideas, tips and techniques, things to think about, checklists, and other
job aids.
Books by Roger Schank
From Subject-Based to Cognition-Based Eduction. (upcoming release) - Preview the updated first four chapters of the book or email your friends about the book. (Preview last updated 13 November 2009.)
Lessons in Learning, e-Learning, and Training. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Published by Pfeiffer, San Francisco, CA, 2005.
Making Minds Less Well Educated than Our Own. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahway, NJ, 2004.
Designing World Class e-Learning. McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 2001.
Scrooge Meets Dick and Jane. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahway, NJ, 2001.
Coloring Outside the Lines: Raising a Smarter Kid by Breaking All the Rules. HarperCollins, New York, 2000.
Dynamic Memory Revisited. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1999.
Inside Multi-Media Case Based Instruction. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahway, NJ, 1998.
Virtual Learning: A Revolutionary Way to Build a Highly Skilled Workforce. McGraw Hill, New York, 1997.
Engines for Education. With C. Cleary. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1995.
Inside Case-Based Explanation. With A. Kass and C. Riesbeck. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1994.
Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making. Edited with E. Langer. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1994.
The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind. Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1991.
Tell Me A Story. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, 1990. New edition: Northwestern University Press, 1995.
Inside Case-Based Reasoning. With C. Riesbeck, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1989.
The Creative Attitude. With P. Childers, Macmillan and Company, New York, NY, 1988.
Explanation Patterns: Understanding Mechanically and Creatively. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1986.
The Cognitive Computer: On Language, Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. With P. Childers, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, MA, 1984.
Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Learning in Computers and People. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1982.
Reading and Understanding: Teaching From an Artificial Intelligence Perspective. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1981.
Inside Computer Understanding: Five Programs Plus Miniatures. Co-editor with C. Riesbeck, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1981.
Scripts, Plans, Goals and Understanding: An Inquiry Into Human Knowledge Structures. With R. Abelson, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1977.
Conceptual Information Processing. North-Holland Press, Amsterdam, 1975.
Proceedings of the Conference on Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing. Co-editor with B. Nash-Webber. Distributed by Association for Computational Linguistics, 1975.
Computer Models of Thought and Language. Edited by R. Schank and K. Colby, W. H. Freeman Press, San Francisco, CA, 1973.
A Conceptual Dependency Representation for a Computer-Oriented Semantics. University of Texas, PhD thesis, 1969.
