A Comparison between Performance and Education Technology

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A Comparison between Performance and Education
Technology

• Albert zhang
• www.jeast.net/user/zxian
• zx209260_at_hotmail.com

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What is Human performance Technology ?

• Human
• Deal with the performance of people
  operating within results oriented systems.
• Focus on how to enhance individual human
  performance by looking at the organization , the
  process and the individual in the defined setting
  .

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What is Human performance Technology ?

• Performance
• the outcomes and accomplishments
• Technology
• the application of procedures and
  professional experience to the solution of
  practical problems .

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What is Human performance Technology ?

• Human technology can be viewed as a field
  of endeavor that serves to bring about changes
  to a system, and in such a way, that the system
  is improved in the terms of the achievements it
  values.

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What is Human performance Technology ?

• There isnt a definition that all
  people agree with. But many people do agree
  upon its critical attributes.

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Critical Attributes

• HPT is systematic.
• HPT is grounded in scientifically derived
  theories and the best available empirical
  evidence.
• HPT is open to all means, methods, and media.
• HPT is focused on achievements that human
  performance and the system value.

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What is Education Technology?

• Educational technology is the study and ethical
  practice of facilitating learning and improving
  performance by creating, using, and managing
  appropriate technological processes and
  resources.
• --AECT2005

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The similarities

• Adherence to systems approach.
• Reliance upon analysis
• Possessing antecedents in systems, communications
  , psychological, anthropological and sociological
  theory and literature
• Focusing attention on the causes of performance
  problems

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Difference between ET and PT
Arena Education Technology Performance Technology
Goals Individual skills and knowledge Business results
Target The individual Organizational policies, programs and management, perspectives
Activities Analysis and instruction Analysis and wider array of interventions
Deliverables Instructional products and services Solution systems which may or may not include instruction
Domain The classroom The organization
Vision Specialist Generalist
Futures Need assessor, Multimedia producer, Knowledge engineer, Developer of distant delivery systems, self-instructional products, On demand learning and information, Automated instructional design, Quality control with vendor, Performance technologist Need assessor, Broker and manager across functions, Collaborator, total quality manager, Consultant, Expert in one intervention or anther
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References

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• Darlene M. Van Tiem James L. Moseley Joan
  Conway Dessinger Fundamentals of performance
  technology A guide to improving people, process,
  and performance international society for
  performance improvement Washington, D.C. 2000

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• Thanks!