Course Reflection – Human Performance Technology

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,…

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Intervention Evaluation

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.…

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Successful Intervention Implementation and Maintenance

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.…

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Organizational Communication Intervention

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,…

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Performance Analysis Graphic

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,…

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Job Aid: Adding a YouTube Video to Kaltura

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…

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