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ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals

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PROS
(a) It's nice to have all this information in one place--and to have it in a definitive way.
(b) The voices are a mix of experience and academic know-how.
(c) The progression of the book seems about right for a basic to advanced set-up

CONS
(1) This is a collection of articles, so the connectivity, while attempted, is not thorough and leads to repeat information.
(2) The writing styles are vastly different and this is distracting.
(3) The job aids provided as tables are ironically difficult to follow at times.
(4) I know this book isn't a training, but it could use, at least, a (better) set of outcomes and outputs for the reader at the start.
(5) This collection is suited for those people who have a learning intelligence that is academic and reading-based.
(6) Ironically (hmm, a 2nd time), this book does not focus on application by the reader but instead on expertise of the writer--this makes for some of the writing to seem only practical to the unique situation or academic theory presented.

I bought this book to sharpen my own training background. As an academic reference book it has been quite disappointing. First off it does not seem to have a table of content. This means that you need to wade through all the pages in order to get to the page you require. It also does not seem to be appropriately formatted for the kindle so bullets spacing etc. is quite poor. Lastly there is no reference to where you can download the digital content mentioned in the book.

It seems to be a bit of a dump onto kindle and does not nearly justify the price.