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Improving Performance: Triage in the Apple Store

August 23, 2014 by Susan Detrie

Organizations look to training to address performance issues by employees, but often the solution to a performance problem is more complex. Having been charged with analyzing an organizational performance problem for a graduate class at Indiana University, Bloomington, it was timed perfectly with the crash of the hard drive on my Apple laptop computer. While sitting in the local Apple Retail Store, I started to notice something extraordinary in the way my emergency was addressed. In the past, these issues […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: analysis, Apple, educational technology, HPT, human performance improvement, ISPI Model, performance, technology, training

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Flipping for TED Talks

August 19, 2014 by Susan Detrie

Whether listening to TED talks online, through the NPR TED Radio Hour or being lucky enough to attend a TED talk in person, it is easy to see there is something special going on and the media artifacts produced far exceeds the average entertainment product. The power of a TED talk is often the ability of the speaker to make the seemingly inaccessible or boring things we encounter every day more accessible and compelling. Complicated topics like data mining, or […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: educational technology, flipping the class, interactive learning, TED, TED ED

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The Art of the Podcast Translates to Class

August 18, 2014 by Susan Detrie

A teacher in one of my graduate classes remarked that she loved using technology in her classroom, but to her the biggest waste of time was the podcast. Why would anyone bother with a podcast? It was clear she had never listened to This American Life . Until that moment, I thought everyone had listened to the NPR show, since its often the number one download on iTunes. Still, it appears the podcast, while a powerful communication tool, has yet […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: educational technology, media, media literacy, podcast, technology tools

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Defining Educational Technology with Metaphor

August 8, 2014 by Susan Detrie

People rarely think about the fact that color is one of the things we see every day that is systematic, scientific, messy and evocative of everything from the austerity of pure physics, to the emotional states of people, to the human mind at work. In looking at the field of educational technology and it’s many dimensions, color, and specifically the additive colors of light, provides an interesting metaphor for describing the vibrant, scientific, chaotic and changing nature of the field.. […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: educational technology, human performance improvement, human performance technology, instructional design, instructional systems design, instructional systems technology, instructional technology

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