Advanced Technology Transfer of Gerontological Training--Linkage. Volume 1

摘要

The text reports on a project designed to demonstrate how centrally based advanced telecommunications can be used to efficiently and economically train older Alaskan Commission project staffs (or other personnel) located in remote communities. Alaska's Satellite Communications System was used to provide training to eight remote communities in Alaska from a central training station in Anchorage. Researchers used three training modes: (1) audioconferences via telephone, (2) audioconferencing with a videotape and workbook, (3) televised audioconferencing. Fifty-six people participated in the demonstration, and an average of 24 attended each session. The project demonstrated that the most effective techniques are interactive televised audioconferencing, audioconferencing prepared for the training through the use of an educational videotape and a workbook that can be used to guide the training, or some combination of the two. Further, the remote training resulted in a noticeable change in the participants' knowledge of and attitudes about the training topics. It is concluded that training and other dissemination of information by remote means can be performed much more economically than by transporting trainees to a central location.