The World of IT and HPT
Key People
B.F.Skinner developed a philosophy of science that he called radical behaviorism. And contemporary academia considers Skinner a pioneer of modern behaviorism.
Robert M. Gagné is an American educational psychologist and the he is best known for his conditions of learning: verbal information, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, motor skills and attitudes.
Successful story
Roy is running an English training school which aims at help students to pass Toefl and IELTS in order to study abroad.
But he found that some clients are not very satisfied with the learning experience.
After instructional designers work with teacher, they found the complaints are from two reasons. The first one is the speaking class is too instructor-centered and students just have very limited time to speak.
And another problems is that parents cannot track their children’s learning progress.
The first problem is learning-related. Using instructional design, we arranged the class settings and put white board around the wall. And based on constructivism, we revised the class in that students will describe 2-3 scenes every class. They can bring their own drawing of the same scene, stick it to the whiteboard and give a presentation to the rest of class. And classmates and teachers can comment on it.
The second problem is related to human performance improvement. We design a chart in google sheet and teachers can write their observation and comments according to the questions on the sheet. And parents can take a look at it when they are convenient.
Human Performance Tech
HPT aims at improving employees’ competency and organizaitions’ productivity and searching for more opportunities by analysis, development and implementation with most cost-effective stragies.
We improve human learning and performance in various context.
By using learning theories and modern technology, we aim at looking at learning and management issues from a holistic view and address them with the shortest and most economical manner.
Better School, Better Business
Instructional Technology
Instructional technology is a field of study which by combining learning theories and modern technologies aims to facilitate learning and teaching activities to the widest range of people including K-12 students, university students, adults and teachers and manage and evaluate the process and content for learning.
we transform learning from rote learning and heavy memorization to active and engaging process.
The "ADDIE" model
Instructional design is a process which starts with identifying the learning problems and produces attractive and well organized plan which will be contunuously evaluated and improved to solve targeted problems.