The National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT), a small nonprofit considered to be the intellectual center of the technology-based course transformation movement, has labored mightily and with much success to help more colleges bring their undergraduate courses into the modern age. But it has labored precisely because colleges have yet to…

This volume explores the potentials of advanced technologies as they apply to education and training and looks at efforts to exploit these potentials in three areas: vocational-technical training, formal education, and corporate programs. An introduction, "The Age of Knowledge Work" (Emmanuel T. Velasco, Gayla C. Carreon), defines…