Handbook of Human Performance Technology: Principles, Practices, and Potential, Third Edition

PREFACE

It is true; the one constant we can count on in this modern world is change. Since 1992, when Harold D. Stolovitch and Erica J. Keeps so ably coedited the first edition of the Handbook of Human Performance Technology, the world in which we live and work has undergone significant transformation. Several of these changes and their impact were captured in Stolovitch and Keeps's second edition of the handbook, published in 1999. However, when one compares and contrasts the first two editions of the handbook, one will note that there are constants in the forms of truisms and principles in the field of human performance technology (HPT) that transcend time. Our goal in producing this third edition of the handbook, some six-plus years after the ...