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Index: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16?
Links
Assignments
- Suha- Do recruiters use linked in to find employees? Google it.
These are two sites that might shed some light on the issue.
How Recruiters Use LinkedIn to find Candidates
Recruiters Get LinkedIn in Search of Job Candidates
Academiccolab.org
Grab bag
- Self-promotional and company promotional
- Have you invited someone?
- Teach a partner about something on Linkedin
- Why do we have recommendation?
- A company that allows you to enter information about yourself
- Kind of like Facebook, Myspace
- Slightly different focus
- This is a database, that this company has
- Dr. Martindale has done nothing but add people as connection
- Groups have not done anything, no job searches, no recommendations
- Nothing really useful for 1-2 year worth of use
- Jerry Bates- How her son uses it- digging your well today so that it has a chance to fill up by the time you want water.
- Kind of like having a business card
- People join groups, administrator does not assign people to their group
- People can be in multiple groups.
- Created this account as an exercise to be aware of social networking sites.
- Not a cheerleader for any of these sites.
- Gary Morrison- article from Innovate- Meet students where they are.
- Social Networks in education.
- Take on things like LinkedIn to be aware of trends in IDT.
IDT Students link on our IDT website
- A place on the IDT site where you can put information about yourself.
- A way to showcase current IDT students to former and incoming students.
- Blogging software
- Cheap and easy way to set up a website.
- WordPress can look like anything
- You put a skin or a theme on top of
- Roles- permissions, multiple collaborators, search bars, RSS feeds
- Can have them host or host them on your own server.
- Probably the most popular downloadable blog.
- Kind of like Weebly
- Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org- Download
- Hosted vs. not hosted
- Hosted is when it is on someone else’s computer
- Easy updates, easy access, less worries, support staff
- Non-hosted is on your own computer.
- Put it on your own computer for security
- Turn it off and on
- Can go out of business
- Google Ad Sense
- Can generate revenue from Google Ads.
- Teacher got paper by having advertisements
- WordPress MU- multi-user
Questions about Intellectual property.
- University of Memphis- Is Dr. Martindale’s course property of the University of Memphis? No. He can take his material and teach it elsewhere. However, a new teacher could come in and teach using his material.
- University is paying for teaching services, not teaching tools.
- The ownership of materials in education is in a gray area right now, especially with distance learning.
- Got started by textbooks. Generally if a professor writes a book, the University gets almost no money.
Creative Commons
- Copyright law is a jumbled mess right now
- Copyright keeps getting further extended. (Once 7 years, now 70 years after you die).
- Disney has been extending it.
- Patent Law- drug companies can extend patents. (Depends on country)
- Creative Commons is for many things, not just photos.
- The idea is that this is a simple way for creators to give access to their work by default, because if you do not use it, all items that you create (in a fixed form) are automatically copywriter by default.
- No easy way for people to share their creations.
- You as the creator, can give up some of your rights to share your work.
Possible Topics for doctoral students:
- Social Networking in Education (i.e. linkedin as a tool)
- Intellectual Property: who owns what?
- Ownership of Property in Higher Education
- What is Informal Learning (good or bad)
Chapters
Chapter 17- Informal Learners
- What is informal learning?- Learning in authentic settings, not in formal settings, people learning from each other.
- Discussions between people.
- Job, task, or interest related.
- Learner usually takes the initiative and is learner oriented.
- Typically there is no role of the instructor.
- Instructors can be used for motivation and building connections, more of an observer.
- It could be many things. Setting up a lunch with business leaders or taking students to areas of the museums and letting them choose where to go.
- Not always the best.
- It is bad because it could threaten IDers job. It is bad because there is a lack of leadership, no oversight.
- Informal Learning is probably not for novice learners.
- Need to have structured, consistent instruction for novice learners.
- Informal Learning is probably good for continuing education because it is more adaptable and is more for people’s individual enrichment.
- Difference between job advice and training.
- Training is more directed, concrete
- What about apprenticeships?
- What does the Instructional Design do?
- Planning to open up learning.
- How do you open up opportunities for informal learning?
- Social get together- Lunch
- Using Computers- chat room, twitter, communities of practice,
- Provide Resources.
- If informal learning is set up, is it still informal learning?
- Brown bag secessions
- People share their tricks, tips, and ideas
- Any kind of parameters- does that make it formal learning?
- Continuum of how much structure to give.
- Where is the cross over from formal to informal?
- Ethics need to be considered when thinking about how much freedom to give employees in informal learning- what they can have on the website?
- Museum experience- learners choose what places to visit and what things to read. Learners can study the object that interests them and that can bring about conversations.
- Virtual Smithsonian (link)
- Museum curator still had a design in placing which artifacts and where.
- Use of artifacts and paintings for teaching in the past.
- Google Maps now has street view (link)
Chapter 18- Instructional Design in Business and Industry
- What is the goal of the IDT program?
- The vast majority of IDT is in the field of business and industry.
- Capacity for adapting allows us to use our IDT skills in a variety of way.
- More money is available for IDT in business and industry.
- Industry cares about money and getting things off the assembly line.
- More training involved at the business level. Salaries are higher for IDers in business and industry.
- Without education, the IDT world would become stagnant.
- As the field is growing, more tech training in education.
- Bad idea to have doctorates go into education with no experience in industry. Happens in all areas though. IDT highly applied field of study.
- Is the stuff in this chapter unique, or could it be applied to any area in IDT?
- Design and Development
- Cycle time- how long it takes to produce something
- Important because it allows business to produce more in a shorter time.
- Quality vs. Quantity
- Do not want to give up either.
- Businesses usually have a very pointed goal, very strict time restrictions, need to have rapid prototyping
- Rapid Prototyping- Quickly developing and testing products. Quicker way to get assessment to make corrections. A working model of the final product very early on. Customer is involved in every stage.
- Rapid Prototyping in the gaming world.
- How about using profiles to speed up learner analysis?
- Have to be your own advocate for getting a quality learner analysis.
Chapter 19- Instructional Design Opportunities in Military Education and Training Environments
- What is this adjustment to military culture? What do I have to adjust to?
- Quick deployment
- Very driven, own sense of definition, own lingo
- Difficult to get in IDT position in the military without serving time.
- Kind of like going into another country
- Like-minded
- Page 192 Chart
- How does each of these things affect and relate to each other?
- Everything can deal with money.
- If it is not learned, it will have major repercussions.
- More severe in the military than in other cases where the learner does not get to the end result.
- Have to be able deliver instruction to where they are.
- Lot of downtime to finish degree (motivational).
- Modern military is trying more and more to develop life-long learning.
- They will support you to do what you are doing as a solider, but also life after being a solider.
- Get people to stay in longer with incentives and then you do not need to start all over- retention.
- Challenges for instructional Designers
- Ineffective instruction can have catastrophic consequences
- Training needs to address the needs of the military and the individual
- Environment was constantly changing
- Wise use of technology
- Assuming responsibiltyes dictated by one’s role and relationship to the military
- ADL Advanced Distributed Learning Spider.
- Interoperability very important. High number of joint force operations. Very different culture and lingo. Presents as an instructional problem. Move towards becoming more unified, but because of the pride there are those that do not want to.
- SCORM
- Structured delivery system
- Specification for how instructional content will operate in different LMS.
- Shared Content Object Reference Model
- Not a curriculum
- Specification
- Like a file Format
- List of rules
- Academiccolab.org
- Chapter 19 is very important especially beginning with page 186. There are very important discussions regarding some of the challenges for instructional designers in a military environment.
- Joint force operations has skyrocketed
- Leading the First Command
- Airforce Basic Military Training (BMT)
Chapter 20- Performance, Instruction, and Technology in Health Care Education
- What falls under health care education?
- Lots of opportunities for instructional design
- Public health, techniques, patient websites, pharmaceutical companies, doctors, nurses, veterinarian, dentistry
- Organizations do it because it is a cheaper why to instruct their patients.
- Patients use it so they can find out about preventative measures to help them stay healthy.
- Instruction for patients are often handed down, no one really wants to do it.
- Lots of opportunities in health care.
- Certification needs in IDT?- Not really any that are needed.
- CPT- more for performance support
- What is the Flexner Report?
- Said that there was not enough education in medicine, doctors only need to memorize symptoms and diagnosis
- More need for problem-based, or evidence-based.
- Evidence-based practice- what is the best practice based on the evidence. Defending your answer based on the evidence.
- Attitude change- An area where IDT can have a bigger impact.
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