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  1. Apr 2019
  2. Mar 2019
    1. “Would you rather have a Princeton diploma without a Princeton education, or a Princeton education without a Princeton diploma? If you pause to answer, you must think signaling is pretty important.”

      Speaks to certification as the new systemization of power

  3. Sep 2018
  4. Aug 2018
    1. their establishment of the linkbetween individual performance and organizational perfor-mance helped to cement the acceptance and credibility ofHPT solutions

      link between individual and organizational performance

    2. Rummler has identified six factors that affect humanperformance: performance specification, task support, con-sequences, feedback, skills/knowledge, and individualcapacity.

      Six factors affecting human performance

    3. West (1997b) purports that Rummler likenedorganizations to ecosystems where every component is inter-related and linked together. Rummler felt that analysis shouldaccount for the fact that organizational performance and indi-vidual performance are unique and require different solutions(Rosenberg et al., 1992). He believed that organizational per-formance is as important as individual performance

      Rummler, we're all in this together.

    4. performance element is what the learner should beable to do; the conditions element comprise the situationsunder which performance will occur, and the criterion ele-ment is the standards or levels of acceptable performance

      Performance, conditions, criterion

    5. Mager introduced the notionthat instructional designers should move beyond determin-ing what instructors should teach; rather, they should focuson understanding what learners should be able to do as aresult of the instruction.

      Behavioral objective??? New in 1984? Why just then?

    6. Harless revised his original model so that it included thefour phases of analysis, design, development and testing,and implementation and evaluation, which became wellknown by its abbreviation, ADDIE

      Harless and ADDIE

    7. Gilbert felt that improving the performance of peoplemust begin with identifying and resolving the environmen-tal barriers, thus enabling the people (performers) to achievemaximum performance (Dean, 1997)

      Thomas Gilbert, father of performance technology, philosophy

    8. truemeasurement of any HPT model’s effec-tiveness and suitability for use

      Confused, so this is where the measurement of the effectiveness comes into play? Not in whether or not the desired improvement is achieved?

    9. HPT isdefined as “a systematic approach toimproving productivity and competence,through a process of analysis, interven-tion selection and design, development,implementation, and evaluationdesigned to influence human behaviorand accomplishment” (InternationalSociety for Performance Improvement,2000).

      Definition HPT

    1. This document is published under the Creative Commons Attribution license version 4.4Measuring the Impact of OER Adoption on /Cost

      Nice, quant study, Clear cut, easy to communicate results, draw pretty pictures, etc.

    2. adopting OER is that it saves students—and those who support them—a considerable amount of money

      Read Clark's articles -- is savings really the aspect we want to emphasize? It is easiest to 'measure'.

    3. how individual faculty members and those who support them (e.g., librarians, instructional designers, etc.) can research the effect of their adoption of open educational resources (OER)

      Discern impact of OER on campus.

  5. Jul 2018
    1. Instructors contact Miller’s team with specific requests for textbooks, and the team members do their best to start assembling the materials. A worker with some level of expertise in the subject matter takes the lead. The team reports to Brian Weston, director of distance and accelerated learning. The average workweek for each student worker is 20 hours. Pay is above minimum wage -- between $16.75 and $18.75 per hour

      Professors contacting team for help in creating resources.

    1. Judith Dodge

      This starts with a few pages explaining formative assessment. Page 11 lists 25 ideas, and page 12-21 detail six of them. It's worth scanning, especially 12-21. Will give you ideas for formative assessment in your own classroom.

    1. Teachers began to see students as more competent and trustworthy than before. This opened the way to teachers designing a kind of instruction that required students to move around, communicate, collaborate, and have a voice in the expression of their learning

      Bingo. Wouldn't this be a great way to teach?

  6. Jun 2018