TALs mandate ranges from conceptualization of the material to implementation in the CDs, from the dilemmas of trainees of different backgrounds to the visualization of concepts. TAL uses multimedia-based training experiences to supplement traditional course experiences and also to create non-traditional experiences.
There are a number of features that complement the use of TAL. Some of them are related to beliefs that Technology Associated Learning practices:
- Are inherently "good".
- Make the delivery of education more cost effective.
- Open up possibilities of reaching one and all.
- Offer trainees more control over when and where they interact with "knowledge".
- Offer trainees richer, more diverse learning resources.
- TAL is the online delivery of information, communication, education, and training.
- TAL provides a new set of tools that can add value to all the traditional learning modes-classroom experiences, textbook study, CD-ROM, and traditional computer based training.
- Old-world learning models don't scale to meet the new world learning challenge. TAL provides the tools needed to meet that challenge.
- TAL does not replace the classroom setting, but enhances it, taking advantage of new content and delivery technologies to enable learning.
- In TAL, the learners, as well as the mentoring system, are held accountable.
- Retention for a learner varies, based on content type and the delivery vehicle. The better the match of content and delivery vehicle to a learner's style, the greater the retention, and therefore the greater the results.
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