Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Marketing or Mastering the Instructional Design Process

Marketing

Author: Dhruv Grewal

Grewal and Levy's Marketing is the first text published since the AMA introduced its new value-based definition of the word "Marketing," making it the most modern and forward thinking of all principles of marketing offerings. It seeks to applies the marketing concept. Marketing and its supplementary package was built from scratch by focusing on what the market wants. The motto, "Marketing Creates Value" permeates this text and is stressed through the main themes of entrepreneurship, service global marketing, and ethics.



Table of Contents:

Section 1 Assessing the Marketplace

1 Overview of Marketing

2 Developing Marketing Strategies

3 Ethics

4 Analyzing the Environment

Section 2 Understanding the Marketplace

5 Consumer Behavior

6 Business-to-Business

7 Global Markets

Section 3 Targeting the Marketplace

8 Segmenting & Targeting

9 Marketing Research

Section 4 Value Creation

10 Developing New Products

11 Managing the Product Portfolio and Branding

12 The Role of Services

Section 5 Value Capture

13 Pricing Concepts

14 Setting Prices

Section 6 Value Delivery

15 Designing the Channel and Supply Chain Management

16 Retailing

Section 7 Value Communication

17 Integrated Marketing Communication

18 Advertising

19 Personal Selling

See also: International Financial Reporting Standards or Introduction to Information Systems

Mastering the Instructional Design Process: A Systematic Approach

Author: H C Kazanas

In the past fifteen years, Mastering the Instructional Design Process has become a classic in the field providing professionals, trainers, and students with a step-by-step guide through all aspects of the instructional design process.

In the past two decades there have been profound changes in the state-of-the-art of the instructional design profession. To provide instructional designers with the most current information, this third edition makes use of the recent IBSTPI standards for instructional design.


The revised competencies:

• Address the professional foundations of design, as well as planning and analysis, design development, and management skills

• Encompass tasks of both novice and experienced and expert design professionals

• Have been validated using a national and international population



Mastering the Instructional Design Process, Third Edition also add resses current trends and developments breaking new technologies, rapid change, outsourcing of internal instructional designers, knowledge capital, speed in market change, and globalization and diversity that are influencing today's business environment and the instructional design process.

The third edition of this essential resource features case examples from myriad workplace environments and contains the information, advice, and tools you need to ensure that your planning training and development function is the most up-to-date.

Included with the book is a CD-ROM filled with sample forms, checklists, activities, and PowerPoint presentations for each chapter.



Table of Contents:

Tables, Figures, and Exhibits
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
About the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance, and Instruction
About the Authors
Pt. 1Detecting and Solving Human Performance Problems
1What Is Instructional Design?3
2Alternatives to Instructional Solutions: Five Frequent Options17
3Determining Projects Appropriate for Instructional Design Solutions34
Pt. 2Analyzing Needs, Learners, Work Settings, and Work
4Conducting a Needs Assessment55
5Assessing Relevant Learner Characteristics85
6Analyzing Relevant Work Setting Characteristics106
7Performing Work Analysis123
Pt. 3Establishing Performance Objectives and Performance Measurements
8Writing Perf ormance Objectives161
9Developing Performance Measurements181
10Sequencing Performance Objectives200
Pt. 4Delivering the Instruction Effectively
11Specifying Instructional Strategies219
12Selecting or Designing Instructional Materials245
13Evaluating Instruction275
Pt. 5Managing Instructional Design Projects Successfully
14Designing the Instructio nal Management System299
15Planning and Monitoring Instructional Design Projects317
16Communicating Effectively334
17Interacting with Others350
18Promoting the Use of Instructional Design373
19Developing Yourself386
20Being an Effective Instructional Designer: Lessons Learned390
App. ISelf-Rating of Competence on Instructional Design396
App. IIThe Results of a Survey About Current Issues in Instructional Design412
References424
Name Index449
Subject Index455
Contents of the CD-ROM467
How to Use the CD-ROM471
Pfeiffer Publications Guide475

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