1. Course Introduction Performance Improvement Basics & Analysis Spring 2012

2. Agenda  Introduction  Syllabus  Roles & responsibilities  Some questions  Q & A  Between now and next week…

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Introduction: About your instructor  Research interests  Action research & HPT  Corporate training, E-learning  Instructional design  Member of International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)  Others…

6. 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.

7. Introduction: Why this course?  Original version: R620: Job and task analysis (R621: Needs analysis)  Current version: Expansion of R620 & HPT foundations

8. 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

9. Syllabus: Student requirements  Attendance  Plagiarism  Cellphone

10. Syllabus: Communications  Email  duanm@indiana.edu duanm@indiana.edu  Verify your emails  Office hour  12:20-1:20PM, Wednesdays  WIKI

11. Syllabus: WIKI  A supplementary to course content  Weekly readings  Detailed info about assignments.  Come and visit herehere  Have you accepted my WIKI invitation?

12. Roles & Responsibilities  Instructor’s role  “Tourist guide”  Moderator  Facilitator  Students’ role  Owner of the content  You are your own MASTER!

13. 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?

14. Q&A  Do you have any questions about the course?  Syllabus  Assignments  ….

15. 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