The three differences that I notice about instructional design/technology in the context of business, P-12, and education including the following:
Business instructional design/technology is used to promote the skills and training that employees in major corporations need to succeed in a global employment and economic expansion. When dealing with business companies want technology be the driving force of how employees are completing task and the amount of time in takes to complete those task. If technology is used properly employees can learn faster, projects are executed in a timely fashion, and companies profits can grow much quicker.
P-12 instructional design/technology is in the process of integrating technology around the country in the classrooms. P-12 education technology allows the teacher, students, administration, and parents keep a far better accurate account of the student test scores as the child progress until they reach adulthood. The government understands that our students are competing with a world where global education exist because of technology. The main objective for P-12 education is to use technology as a way for students to learn and assessed for mastery.
Higher education technology is geared toward how technology is working in professional major of studies for the students. The students in higher education are able to achieve distant learning effectively as the schools are beginning to find other means of recruiting more students to result to college after high school. It is the objective of the higher educational institutions to prepare students to become a professional of a specific study.
Is there a particular area or way that you believe your current professional working environment could learn from the other contexts described in these chapters?
What I think my current professional environment should be able to learn from these chapters is that technology has created a world where we all are a click away. If we are going to compete on a global scale we must defend the use of instructional technology for the improvement of humanity.
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ReplyDeleteLaMarr: In your statement–" If technology is used properly employees can learn faster, projects are executed in a timely fashion, and companies profits can grow much quicker."– I think the first word is the important one.
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Technology may not be used properly, or surrounded with the right kind of support. I believe that it's more likely for business and industry to get technology use right than the other sectors. They have more at stake. Everyone employed by the corporation could be at risk if the processes do not improve.
In the educational sectors, the results are not tied to the continuation of the enterprise so directly. If the lessons fail, students still may graduate, though their understanding may be lessened. Accountability is harder to trace, even though there may be more emphasis on assessment.
Business fails --> profits down --> company fails
Educational institution fails --> students learn less --> fewer students graduate --> institution may still go on.
Hello Lamar,
ReplyDeleteI find your blog very interesting. I notice that some of the differences you site are the same as some of the similarities I noted in my blog. I found many commonalities between the industries.
I like your perspective. It challenges me to view the three areas in a different way.
I agree that ID should be promoted in order to help learners function in our global environment.