Selecting Communications Technology For Delivering Continuing Professional Education (Cpe) Programs

Ideally, Continuing Professional Education (CPE) helps us enrich careers by providing access to new information that enhances competence and opportunity, but simply providing that information is only part of the equation. Clearly, how information is delivered has as strong an effect on individual success as what is delivered. This paper investigates a proposed study of how Continuing Professional Engineering Educators (CPEE) chose technologies for delivering employee education in high-technology industries, most particularly how or if they integrate human considerations in that decision. Awareness of these issues is critical to a successful instructional design and a supportive learning environment. Understanding human considerations heightens understanding of learner attitude how, for example, a specific medium affects one s ability to learn and the degree of acceptance or resistance one invests in the process. Sadly, the importance of such human elements is often minimized or ignored. The quality of decisions improves dramatically when human elements are considered, and consequently enhances the learning process.