Computer Training Handbook

The Computer Training Handbook: Strategies for Helping People to Learn Technology This is an insightful and information book on training adults to be computer users. This book is for trainers, managers and others, to teach users how to use computers in their jobs applying different learning/thinking styles.

I wish Elliott Massie had updated this book since writing it in 1995. It is a useful book, but there have been many improvements in technology and I would have liked to have seen his opinion about what works and what does not work in an online setting. Even for an experienced trainer, this book contained some helpful suggestions.

This is one of my favorite books about computer training (the other is Paul Clothier's "Complete Computer Trainer"). This is a denser read than Mr. Clothier's tome, with more theory and fewer real world examples. If you have to design a computer training program for a single individual, or for hundreds of people - as I have done - then this is one of the must have books. Get this one, and get Mr. Clothier's book, and you'll have all the library you need to design an excellent computer training program.