Course IntroductionPerformance Improvement Basics & Analysis

Spring 2012

Agenda

Introduction

Syllabus

Roles & responsibilities

Some questions

Q & A

Between now and next week…

Introduction: About you

What is your name?

Why do you choose this course? What are your goals by completing this course?

Who do you want to be?

Any personal information you would like to share with us Hobbies Family Etc.

Introduction: About your instructor

Minjing Duan 段敏静 Doctoral candidate at the Department of Instructional Systems

Technology (IST), School of Education, Indiana University

Major (doctoral) Instructional technology, Performance technology in special

Major (Master’s) Educational psychology and counseling, research methods in

special

Minor Organizational behavior & human resources management

Introduction: About your instructor

Research interests Action research & HPT Corporate training, E-learning Instructional design

Member of International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)

Others…

Introduction: About you

What is your name?

Why do you choose this course? What are your goals by completing this course?

Who do you want to be?

Any personal information you would like to share with us Hobbies Family Etc.

Introduction: Why this course?

Original version: R620: Job and task analysis (R621: Needs analysis)

Current version: Expansion of R620 & HPT foundations

Syllabus: Overview

Goals Three modules

HPT basics Job/task analysis Data collection and

analysis Teaching method

Seminar Student project Collaboration

No exams

Readings Book sections Articles English

Assignments Four minor

assignments Two major

assignments

Syllabus: Student requirements

Attendance

Plagiarism

Cellphone

Syllabus: Communications

Email duanm@indiana.edu Verify your emails

Office hour 12:20-1:20PM, Wednesdays

WIKI

Syllabus: WIKI

A supplementary to course content

Weekly readings

Detailed info about assignments.

Come and visit here

Have you accepted my WIKI invitation?

Roles & Responsibilities

Instructor’s role “Tourist guide” Moderator Facilitator

Students’ role Owner of the content You are your own MASTER!

Some questions…

How much do you know about HPT? Any courses you have taken? Any readings you have read? Any professional conferences you have attended? …

Do you have your own definition of HPT? Or what does the term HPT mean to you?

Q&A

Do you have any questions about the course? Syllabus Assignments ….

Between now and next week…

Send me via email your goals for taking this course If you would like, you can upload them to the WIKI page and

share with other students

Complete the following readings for next week Irlbeck (2002) Pershing (2006) P5-14 Stolovitch (1999) Gilbert (1978) chapter 1 ISPI Definition Swanson (2007) P. 60-61

Think about your own definition of HPT