This book focuses on the importance of human factors in optimizing the learning and training
process. It reports on the latest research and best practices and discusses key principles of
behavioral and cognitive science which are extremely relevant to the design of instructional
content and new technologies to support mobile and multimedia learning virtual training and
web-based learning among others as well as performance measurements social and adaptive
learning and many other types of educational technologies with a special emphasis on those
important in the corporate higher education and military training contexts. Based on the AHFE
2017 Conference on Human Factors in Training Education and Learning Sciences held July 17-21
2017 in Los Angeles California the book offers a timely perspective on the role of human
factors in education. It highlights important new ideas and will foster new discussions on how
to optimally design learning experiences.
