SUSANNAH S. R511 BLOG

Week 12B: Career & Professional Development
Something I found really interesting during this course was the difficulty of developing professional certifications for such a broad...
Week 12A: Professional Ethics and Social Change
IST is not the only field to focus on social change and ethics, particularly ethics in technology, but its expansive professional context...
Week 11: History, Trends, and Issues in HPT
One major trend in HPT is the development of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. They represent how far technology has advanced in the...
Week 10: Human Performance Tech: Concepts & Process Models
Human Performance Technology, also sometimes referred to as Human Performance Improvement (though the two terms are not interchangeable...
Week 9: Trends and Issues in IT
Of all the takeaways I've received from this course, the idea of problem-solving is probably one of the most interesting conceptual...
Week 8: History of IT
The history of IST is so fascinating. I truly think that the evolution of the field over time ties directly with changing understandings...
Week 3: Instructional Development Process
I'm writing again in retrospective, and it's truly fascinating to conduct a refresher of the articles and videos assigned each week and...
Week 1B: Instructional Technology Overview
I'm back-tracking here a bit on this blog, because I must admit I've never really done much blogging and find it difficult to send my...
Week 7: Theories of Learning: Comparison
As we get farther along in this course, the evolution of theories of learning and learning principles and best practices are getting more...
Week 6: Authentic Learning and Cognitive Apprenticeship
I was very excited to read this week's articles on authentic learning, as it seems to not only be a trend in education and instructional...
Week 5: Cognitive and Constructivist Perspectives
In reading this week's articles about constructivism, I was struck by the direct correlations I saw between constructivist principles and...
Week 4: Theories of Learning: Behaviorism
I started off this week's readings with Driscoll's chapter on Radical Behaviorism, and I have to say it left a bad taste in my mouth. I...
Week 2: Instructional Systems Design
What I found most interesting in this week's array of articles was the acknowledgment and attempts at initial addressing of the tensions...
Week 1A: Thoughts on John Dewey's Pedagogic Creed
John Dewey's Pedagogic Creed, a series of articles published in 1897, has an astounding connection to teaching principles in this...