Human Performance Technology
I became a Program Coordinator for three small Internal Medicine Fellowship programs in 2016. At the time, the on-boarding and orientation processes for new trainees, which takes place every academic year, felt disorganized. There are a multitude of departments within UAB, each with different but connected purposes which, when executed…
What was the most challenging part of this course for you personally? Honestly? Getting started. I suspect a combination of burnout from the first half of the semester (course involving the service learning project) and a distaste for the textbook: walls of text, heading levels that weren’t used the same,…
Course: Performance System Technology. Spring 2020 Assignment: Create an infographic to teach the most important information about intervention evaluation—overview, planning, and implementing—and provide my rationale. Response: Evaluation is the foundation of a successful Performance Improvement Intervention. The three main types (formative, summative, and confirmative) form one part of the support.…
Course: Performance System Technology. Spring 2020 Assignment: The text for this course (Van Tiem, Moseley, & Dessinger, 2012) presented 8 techniques as it applies to successful intervention implementation and maintenance: Partnering, networking, and alliance building, Process consulting, Employee development, Communication to develop support, Change management, Project management, Feasibility, and Sustainability.…
March 2020: Partnered project to create a website to teach classmates about Organizational Communication Interventions (Chapter 15 of our textbook) using Google Sites. Video was made using Adobe Spark. All graphics came from Pixabay (royalty-free/creative commons licensed images). Created chalkboard and caution signs using Photoshop. In order to embed video,…
Course: Performance System Technology. Spring 2020 Assignment: Design a graphic organizer to compare and contrast and share what you have learned in your reading regarding the following: performance analysis, organizational analysis, environmental analysis, gap analysis, cause analysis. Response: From the readings, I got the impression that the organizational, environmental, gap,…
Course: Universal Differentiated Instructional Design and Development Assignment: Create a job-aid for UAB Teaching Faculty that provides step-by-step instructions for technology they are likely to use. In my initial iteration of this assignment (November 2019), I didn't care for the layout or size of the images. I had done them based…