Job Skills and Kuwait

Cervino (1997) goes on to note that because of the travel expenses, instruction costs, decreased productivity due to employee absence, and employee dissatisfaction due to disruption of their daily routine, many companies are electing to use distance education for employee training rather than to send them out of the company for face-to-face instruction. Moreover, he notes that many companies using distance education for employee training are finding out that it helps them to stay competitive in ways other than reducing costs. For example, employees participating in distance education can receive the training they need precisely when they need it. Also, they can learn new skills without it have a major effect on their current responsibilities, and, through online and other technologies, they are able to interact with co-workers in other sites, even other parts of the world. Further, employees in very remote locations n

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nt, information systems, education, counseling and nursing. The foregoing brings up a basic point that cannot be ignored in the history of distance education which is the development of computers and the use of cyberspace as a virtual classroom. Kerka (1996) has discussed both computers and the use of the world wide web for purposes of distance education, noting that the delivery of instruction through media such as audiotape, videotape, radio and television broadcasting, and satellite transmission began a vast change in distance learning. However, it is microcomputers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web that have, and will continue to shape distance learning. Kerka states that the next generation of distance educated learners will be exposed to yet more sophisticated technologies including such things as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and knowledge systems. As to the history of distance education in cyberspace, Kerka (1996) points out that as of the late 1980s and all of the 1990s, the Internet and the Web, more than any other distance media, are helping people to overcome the barriers of time and space in terms of academic education as well as in terms of learning needed skills for career and professional purpos
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