Web-based training, WBT, is a relatively new application of instructional design in any organization. Advances in technology may tempt WBT designers to use the fastest or the latest technological features possible, but if content and intent are obscured and instructional effectiveness sacrificed, the WBT becomes another neglected eye-catching, yet…

Advances in technology offer the possibility of new methods for delivering instruction. Learning via the Internet is being heralded by many as the new pedagogical model for training. Recent issues of training, computer, and management magazines all suggest that web-based training (WBT) is the best way to reach geographically dispersed employees…

Recent issues of training, computer, and management magazines all suggest that Web-based training (WBT) is the best way to reach geographically dispersed employees quickly and at low costs. The purpose of this paper is to explore the many unique characteristics of WBT and to discuss important issues related to the use of WBT in a corporate…