Microsoft Windows 98 - Complete Edition [Textbook Binding]

Kenneth C. Laudon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000

The Series has trained over 650,000 students throughout North American universities, colleges, and business schools where it is distributed by McGraw-Hill; the largest, most reputable book publisher in the world. The product you are about to purchase is the same high quality software training system proven in thousands of classrooms and hundreds of offices worldwide.

The MS Windows 98 CoursePak contains both a highly interactive CD ROM training program PLUS an easy-to-use book that reinforces learning and provides a useful reference manual. This is the fastest and most effective software learning tool. Azimuth's Inter@ctiveLearning Series CoursePak provides a comprehensive eight-hour training program.

The Series is designed for those who need to learn software tools effectively in the shortest possible time. The interactive CD ROM provides detailed software simulations with full audio plus immediate interactive feedback. You learn while actually practicing skills in a simulated software environment.

The step-by-step instructional book reinforces the CD program, and takes you further into advanced skill areas. The book also acts as a very handy desktop reference guide with a complete index and glossary for more than one hundred software skills.

Once you have mastered the essential skills and gained confidence with the software, the higher-level skills are taught through detailed exercises in the textbook.

Outcomes:
The CoursePak will lead you through all essential software tasks while the interactive practice sessions and TeacherWizard help you each step of the way, skill by skill. Clear instructions demonstrate how to build typical business documents, spreadsheets, slides and databases. Once installed, the CoursePak is available 24x7x365 and provides instant solutions to the most common problems you may encounter using MS Office. Upon completion of the course you will be prepared to take a MOUS Level 1 examination.

Assessment:
Once you have mastered the essential skills and gained confidence with the software, the higher-level skills are taught through detailed exercises in the back of each Lesson.

The bottom line, if you are serious about learning a Microsoft product, the Inter@ctiveLearning Series CoursePak is the most effective, reliable self-paced training system on the market.

Week 1:
The CoursePak is a self-paced course that contains over 12 hours of individual instruction and can be taken at your own pace. Your learning progress is saved which will allow you to pick up the training from where you left off.

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About the Author

Professor Kenneth C. Laudon
New York University
Stern School of Business
Management Education Center
44 West 4th Street
New York, New York 10012
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23 North Division Street
Peekskill, NY 10566
[phone]
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Ken Laudon is Professor of Information Systems at New York University's Stern School of Business. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has authored twelve books dealing with information systems including Computers and Bureaucratic Reform, Communications Technology and Participation, Dossier Society, Information Technology and Management Strategy, Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, Information Systems and the Internet: A Problem Solving Perspective, Solving Classic Business Problems, Information Technology and Society, and Interactive Computing: Concepts and Skills.

Ken has authored seventy five articles and book chapters concerned with the organizational, social and management impacts of information systems. Ken has testified as an expert before several Congressional Committees and has worked with the Office of the President as a consultant on privacy legislation.

Ken currently conducts research and builds prototypes of broadband interactive higher education materials. This project has been supported by grants from Apple Computer, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Assymetrix Corporation, and Macromedia, Inc. In addition, Ken conducts research and writes articles on privacy and freedom of information in the Internet era, enterprise systems, and distance learning.

Azimuth Interactive , Inc.

Ken is the founder of Azimuth Interactive Inc. Azimuth Interactive is a developer of broadband, interactive education and training delivered over the Internet, university and corporate Intranets, and CD ROM. Since 1993 Azimuth has been a leader in the development of interactive broadband college textbooks and software training for higher education and industry. Azimuth develops broadband products for Irwin/McGraw Hill College Publishing, Prentice Hall, and Harcourt Brace. Today, Azimuth is one of the largest independent new media firms focused on higher education and corporate application service providers for software training. Azimuth maintains an integrated production studio for developing all aspects of digital content from sound, graphics, animations, simulations, and video to interactive games and learning systems.

Azimuth works with traditional college and secondary school publishers, as well as new media education firms, as partners in the creation of digital learning environments. In the corporate sector, Azimuth works with human resource, training, and sales professionals to both create new learning materials as well as convert existing materials to digital formats.

Azimuth's mission is to solve educational and training challenges using the most current broadband interactive information technologies. At Azimuth, content is still the most important element in education and training. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Textbook Binding: 209 pages
• Publisher: Azimuth Interactive, Inc. (January 1, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 1930581211
• ISBN-13: 978-1930581210