New frontiers: Nontraditional customized training
✍ Scribed by Cary A. Israel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Weight
- 478 KB
- Volume
- 1994
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0194-3081
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✦ Synopsis
Yesterday, a businesswoman was negotiating an agreement with Libre, Inc., in Madrid that will allow her company to establish a market presence in Spain. It was exciting to apply the Spanish she learned in the course Doing Business in Spanish-Speaking Countries. Today, she will be in Kuwait to explore their customs before deciding whether her corporation should do business in that country She does not want to make the mistake that a company made last year when it sent five hundred pounds of pork to several Kuwaiti restaurants. Muslims generally do not eat pork! These events all happened by working with her local community college. Using virtual reality technoloa, she practiced malung business decisions before they actually happened. One can be immersed in a culture and environment without every stepping foot into that society. Mistakes can occur without losing business. This is one example of the new frontiers that lie ahead in nontraditional customized training. Multicultural customized training packages will expand beyond the frontiers of the classroom and, through technology such as virtual reality, reach into international marketplaces to provide training that will maximize opportunities for international business.
New frontiers are rarely developed by a single individual. Rather, they are often the products of vision and teamwork. And so it is with the five nontraditional customized training frontiers described in this chapter. Each requires the development of a partnership in one form or another in order to accomplish a greater good for all parties concerned, whether students, colleges, businesses, or the community at large. The first frontier or initiative examines how a consortium can better deliver customized training. The second explains how NEW DIRECTIONS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGF5. no. 85. Spring 1994 8 Jossey-Bass Publishers